Fall 2007 Readings at Beinecke Library
Yusef Komunyakaa
Thursday, September 20th, 4 pm
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
Yusef Komunyakaa is the author of many collections of poetry, including Pleasure Dome: New & Collected Poems, 1975-1999, Talking Dirty to the Gods, Magic City, Dien Cai Dau, Thieves of Paradise, and Neon Vernacular: New & Selected Poems 1977-1989, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. He is also the author of Blues Notes: Essays, Interviews & Commentaries. He has received the William Faulkner Prize from the Université de Rennes, the Thomas Forcade Award, the Hanes Poetry Prize, fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Louisiana Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Bronze Star for his service in Vietnam, where he served as a correspondent and managing editor of the Southern Cross.
Charles Bernstein
Tuesday, October 16th, 4 pm
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
Charles Bernstein is the author of some 20 collections of poetry including Girly Man, With Strings, Republics of Reality: 1975-1995, Dark City , Rough Trades, The Nude Formalism, and Stigma. He is the author of volumes of prose and criticism including My Way: Speeches and Poems, A Poetics, and Content’s Dream: Essays 1975-1984. Charles Bernstein was the co-founder the influential journal L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E and the co-editor of the anthology The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book. He has written librettos for several operas and has worked with composers such as Ben Yarmolinsky, Brian Ferneyhough, and Dean Drummond. He has been awarded fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He is Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.
Christian Bök
Thursday, November 1, 4pm
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Co-Sponsored by the Modern Books and Manuscripts Collection
and the Beinecke Library-Whitney Humanities Center
Working Group in Contemporary Poetry
Christian Bök is a Canadian experimental poet. He is the author of numerous books, including Crystallography, a pataphysical encyclopedia, and Eunoia, a lipogram that uses only one vowel in each of its five chapters; Eunoia was awarded the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2002. He is a professor at the University of Calgary.
Graham Foust and Elizabeth Robinson
Thursday, November 15th, 4 pm
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
Graham Foust is the author of three books of poetry, Necessary Stranger, Leave the Room to Itself, and As in Every Deafness and numerous poetry chapbooks. He was born in Knoxville, Tennessee and raised in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. He is currently on the faculty of the Master of Fine Arts program in Creative Writing at St. Mary’s College of California.
Elizabeth Robinson is the author of numerous books of poetry, including Pure Descent, winner of the National Poetry Series, Apprehend, winner of the Fence Modern Poets Series, Under that Silky Roof, House Made of Silver, and Bed of Lists. She has been awarded the Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative Poetry and a grant from the Fund for Poetry. She is co-editor of 26, a magazine of poetry and poetics, EtherDome, a press dedicated to publishing the work of emerging women poets, and Instance Press.
Frank Bidart, Poetry Reading
Tuesday, November 27th, 4 pm
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Co-Sponsored by the Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series and the Department of English
Frank Bidart is the winner of the 2007 Bollingen Prize for poetry. He is the author of numerous books of poetry, including In the Western Night: Collected Poems, 1965-90, Desire, Star Dust, and Music Like Dirt. He has received the Wallace Stevens Award, the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize, and the Bobbitt Prize for Poetry. He has taught at Brandeis University and, since 1972, Wellesley College. In 2003 he was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
A regularly-updated list of Fall 2007 readings scheduled at Yale University can be found on line: 2007-2008 Readings at Yale University