Poetry at Beinecke Library

“Art for the Wrong Reason” By Emily Kopley: "The collection is so named because its 68 works were amassed primarily out of interest in the writers who made them and less out of appreciation for the work's artistic merit."

The Yale Collection of American Literature welcomes the following research fellows for the month of December, 2007: H.D. Visiting Fellow in American Literature

The Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series on line finding aid for streaming audio of poetry readings at the Beinecke Library has recently been updated to include 2006 and 2007 readings by John Ashbery, Fanny Howe, Terrance Hayes, Major Jackson, Ron Padgett, and Natasha Trethewey, this year's Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry.

Please join us for a poetry reading by Frank Bidart on Tuesday, November 27th, 4 pm. This event is co-Sponsored by the Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series and the Department of English; the reading is free and open to the public. The poet will be introduced by Yale graduate student Erica Levy McAlpine.

Recordings of many events in the Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series are available as podcasts that can be downloaded as well as streamed directly from the web: Beiencke Podcasts.

  Please join us for poetry readings by Graham Foust and Elizabeth Robinson on Thursday, November 15, 2007, 4pm. This event is free and open to the public. For additional information about readings at Beinecke Library visit: 2007-2008 Readings at Beinecke Library.