Yale Collection of American Literature

Please join us to celebrate the opening of “Destined to Be Known: The James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection at 75” on Thursday, September 29th at 4pm at the Beinecke Library.

Congratulations to Cave Canem, awarded the National Book Foundation’s Literarian Award for service to the American literary community.

African American literary and artistic achievements are showcased in a new exhibition, “Destined to Be Known: The James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection at 75,” at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. The exhibition runs Sept. 23–Dec. 10 in the library, 121 Wall St. It is free and open to the public.

Please join us for a reading by poet Elizabeth Alexander on Monday, October 10, 4:00 PM.

The Poetry Society of America will host a tribute to poet C. D. Wright in NYC on Wednesday, October 19.

Celebrating Carl Van Vechten, founder of the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection, one valediction at a time.

Announcing new scholarship by H. D. Fellow Annette Debo: "Norman Holmes Pearson, Canon-Maker."