Beinecke Collections

John Haines is the author of numerous books of poetry, including At the End of This Summer, The Owl in the Mask of the Dreamer; Cicada, Leaves and Ashes, and News from the Glacier. His prose works include: Fables and Distances: New and Selected Essays and The Stars, the Snow, the Fire: Twenty-five Years in the Northern Wilderness.

Michelle Martin is an Associate Professor of English at Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina, where she teaches courses in Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Women’s Literature.

The Appeal If I have given you delight By aught that I have done, Let me lie quiet in that night Which shall be yours anon: And for that little, little span The dead are borne in mind Seek not to question other than The books I leave behind.

The James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of African American Arts and Letters is pleased to announce the acquisition of 7 sketchbooks of drawings by African American artist Masood Ali Wilbert Warren.

The Sword Went Out to Sea: An Unpublished Novel By H.D.