Poetry at Yale

Terrance Hayes & Major Jackson, Poetry Reading Thursday , February 1st, 4 pm Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series Contact: nancy.kuhl@yale.edu Auden at 100: a Centenary Celebration of W.H. Auden Readings and performances by Anne Fadiman, Langdon Hammer, John Hollander, Richard Lalli, Penelope Laurans, J. D. McClatchy, & Edward Mendelson Wednesday, February 21st, 5 pm

The Yale Collection of American Literature has acquired the archive of poet and novelist Gustaf Sobin (1935-2005), an American who lived most of his adult life in Provence. Sobin was the author some 27 books, including primarily books of poetry and novels (some translated into several languages), but also collections of essays, children’s books, and works of translation.

  Terrance Hayes & Major Jackson Thursday, February 1st, 4pm Cosponsored by the African American Studies Department

 

Dr. Edward Fayette Eldridge, American physician, poet, and novelist, was born in New York in 1855 or 1857. He attended the State Normal School in Cortland, New York and graduated from Dartmouth Medical School in 1881. Eldridge practiced medicine in Boston and in Wisconsin before traveling in Europe and relocating to Grand Junction City, Colorado, in 1892.