Poetry at Beinecke Library

A three-judge panel has named Allen Grossman the 2009 winner of Yale University’s Bollingen Prize in American Poetry.

Poet, librettist and Yale professor J.D. McClatchy has been named President of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. A professor of English at Yale and, since 1991, the editor of The Yale Review, McClatchy succeeds another Yale faculty member and former Dean of the Yale School of Music, Ezra Laderman, as president of the 111-year-old national honor society.

Susan Howe and David Grubbs Poetry Reading & Musical Performance Tuesday, February 10, 4:00 pm Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series

The Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies announced today that Yale poet and professor Elizabeth Alexander will read at the swearing in of President-elect Barack Obama on January 20th.

Lucille Clifton, Poetry Reading Tuesday, December 2, 5:30pm Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel Street (NOTE: this event will not take place at Beinecke Library) Co-sponsored by the Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series and New Ideas in African American Studies Contact: nancy.kuhl@yale.edu