Poetry at Beinecke Library

The Yale Collection of American Literature is pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibition:  Love Touch Hype! Visionaire, Magazine in the Extreme, on view at the Beinecke Library from April 30 through June 30, 2009.

G. E. Patterson and Jennifer Moxley, Poetry Readings Thursday, April 23, 4:00 pm Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series Contact: nancy.kuhl@yale.edu

In honor of National Poetry Month, throughout April the Beinecke Library's Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities will feature poetry-related collection materials from the Yale Collection of American Literature and the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of African American Arts and Letters. Stop by often--new posts will be added twice a week.

Please join us for a Yale student poetry reading on Thursday, April 2nd, 2009, at 4:00pm. Student poets reading their work include: Rebecca Dinerstein, Elisa Gonzalez, David Gorin, Jordan Jacks, Rosanna Oh, James Pollack, Chiara Scully.

The Poetry Society of America has awarded Yale Lecturer Richard Deming the 2009 Norma Farber First Book Award for his collection of poems Let's Not Call It Consequence. The book was selected by this year's judge, poet Martha Ronk. In her award citation, Ronk wrote:

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