Lectures and Readings
Thursday, January 14, 2010 - 10:45am
UPCOMING LECTURES and READINGS
John Ashbery, Poetry Reading
Wednesday, September 20, 2006, 4:00 p.m.
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
Battell Chapel, corner of College and Elm Streets
Contact: nancy.kuhl@yale.edu
Simon Eliot, Lecture
Thursday, October 5, 2006, 4:00 p.m.
“Recovering the Contents: Public, Circulating and Pornographic Libraries in the UK 1857-1912”
Beinecke Lectures in the History of the Book Series
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Contact: kathryn.james@yale.edu
Fanny Howe, Poetry Reading
Wednesday, October 18, 2006, 4:00 p.m.
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Contact: nancy.kuhl@yale.edu
Meredith McGill, Lecture
Thursday, November 2, 2006, 4:00 p.m.
“Poetry in Motion: Lyric Circulation in the Antebellum U.S.”
Beinecke Lectures in the History of the Book Series
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Contact: kathryn.james@yale.edu
Natasha Trethewey, Poetry Reading
Wednesday, November 8, 2006, 4:00 p.m.
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
Co-sponsored by the African American Studies Program
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Contact: nancy.kuhl@yale.edu
PAST LECTURES and READINGS
A Talk by Terry Tempest Williams
Friday, May 5, 2006, 4:30 p.m.
Battell Chapel
corner of College and Elm Streets
For more information call: 203.432.2969
Emanuel Hocquard and Keith Waldrop, Reading
Tuesday, May 2, 2006, 4:00 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the French Department
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Contact: timothy.young@yale.edu
Yale University Student Poets
Wednesday, April 26, 2006, 4:00 p.m.
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Contact: nancy.kuhl@yale.edu
Leonard Marcus, Lecture
Thursday, March 30, 2006, 4:00 p.m.
“Charlotte’s Other Web: Children's Books and their History,” the 2006 Betsy Beinecke Shirley Collection of American Children's Literature Lecture
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
For more information call: 203.432.2964
James Green, Lecture
Thursday, March 23, 2006, 4:00 p.m.
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
For more information call: 203.432.2964
Elizabeth Alexander and Matthea Harvey, Poetry Reading
Wednesday, February 22, 2006, 4:00 p.m.
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Contact: nancy.kuhl@yale.edu
Claudia Rankine, Poetry Reading
Wednesday, November 16, 2005, 4:00 p.m.
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Contact: nancy.kuhl@yale.edu
Cole Swensen, Poetry Reading
Thursday, November 10, 2005, 4:00 p.m.
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Contact: nancy.kuhl@yale.edu
Kwame Davis and Marilyn Nelson, Poetry Reading
Wednesday, November 9, 2005, 4:00 p.m.
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
For more information call: 203.432.2964
Peter Gizzi, Poetry Reading
Wednesday, October 26, 2005, 4:00 p.m.
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Contact: nancy.kuhl@yale.edu
Michel DeGuy, Poetry Reading
Monday, October 3, 2005, 4:30 p.m.
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
For more information call: 203.432.2964
Sherman Alexie, Poetry Reading
Friday, September 16, 2005, 3:00 p.m.
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Contact: nancy.kuhl@yale.edu
Allison Joseph, Poetry Reading
Wednesday, April 20, 2005, 4:00 p.m.
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Contact: nancy.kuhl@yale.edu
Morris Cohen, Lecture
Thursday, April 14, 2005, 4:00 p.m.
“Reading on Vacation: Tauchnitz Reprints of English and American Authors”
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
For more information call: 203.432.2964
Yale University Student Poets
Tuesday, April 12, 2005, 4:00 p.m.
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Contact: nancy.kuhl@yale.edu
Ellis Schookman, Lecture
Thursday, March 31, 2005, 4:30 p.m.
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
For more information call: 203.432.2964
Rodrigo Toscano and Elizabeth Willis, Poetry Reading
Tuesday, February 22, 2005, 4:00 p.m.
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Contact: nancy.kuhl@yale.edu
James Longenbach and Carl Phillips, Poetry Reading
Thursday, February 10, 2005, 4:00 p.m.
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
For more information call: 203.432.2964
Joseph Miller, Lecture
Monday, February 7, 2005, 4:00 p.m.
“The Problem of Slavery as History”
This was the first annual David Brion Davis Lecture Series in the History of Slavery, Race, and its Legacies, sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance & Abolition.
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
For more information call: 203.432.2964
Arthur Sze, Poetry Reading
Tuesday, January 18, 2005, 4:00 p.m.
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Contact: nancy.kuhl@yale.edu
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