Poetry at Yale

Some New Poems by Rudyard Kipling By Thomas Pinney, current Beinecke Visiting Fellow Monday, October 26, 2009, 3:00 pm Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 121 Wall Street, Room 38 Free and open to the public

New Podcast: Living Distance: The Life and Papers of James Welch; an audio essay by Eric Ward '09, read by Presca Ahn '09, exploring the life, legacy, and archive of James Welch, the American writer of Blackfeet and Gros Ventre heritage. (MP3: 15:28)

Poet, librettist and Yale professor J.D. McClatchy has been named President of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. A professor of English at Yale and, since 1991, the editor of The Yale Review, McClatchy succeeds another Yale faculty member and former Dean of the Yale School of Music, Ezra Laderman, as president of the 111-year-old national honor society.

Susan Howe and David Grubbs Poetry Reading & Musical Performance Tuesday, February 10, 4:00 pm Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series

An archive of correspondence, writings, and printed material by or relating to the poet Frank Stanford (YCAL MSS 295) are now available for use at the Beinecke Library.Stanford was born in southeast Mississippi in 1948.In the following year he was adopted by Dorothy Gilbert, and in 1952 relocated to Arkansas