What’s a poet with a large circle of friends, rich in words if limited in financial resources, to do when checking the names off his holiday list? For Langston...
October 7, 2017 The Beinecke Library’s extensive holdings in children’s literature will soon grow with the addition of the archive of renowned young-adult...
This fall, the Beinecke Library is home to seven full-semester courses and regularly supports 15 or more class sessions each week, with more than 200...
“Making the English Book,” will be held at Yale University on October 6th and 7th, 2017 at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. The conference...
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library has acquired the archives of visual artist and filmmaker Barbara Hammer. The archives consist of notebooks,...
The July 28, 1917 Silent Protest Parade on Fifth Avenue, one of the first major mass demonstrations by African Americans, will be the focus of a special...
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library will mark the anniversary of the nation’s founding with a special display of a major document of U.S. history...
They say you can’t buy happiness, but visitors will find it in abundance in Happiness: The Writer in the Garden, the Beinecke Library’s latest special...
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library has acquired an early illustrated copy of Telesphorus of Cosenza’s LIbellus de magnis tribulationibus et de...
The director of the Windham-Campbell Prizes at Yale University made the call of a lifetime to eight unsuspecting writers this week, and informed them that they...
Jean Valentine has been named the winner of Yale’s 2017 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry . She is the 50th poet to be honored with the award and joins a...
The Book in History, The Book as History: New Intersections of the Material Text Edited by Heidi Brayman, Jesse M. Lander, and Zachary Lesser (Beinecke Rare...
(Editor’s note: this story originally appeared in YaleNews, December 14, 2016) Betsy Beinecke Shirley began collecting children’s books in order to share...
September 8, 2016 Students studied on the couches on the Beinecke’s mezzanine level on reopening day. (Photo by Michael Marsland) Researchers returned to...
