Exhibitions & Events, Spring–Summer 2020

January 7, 2020

New Acquisition: John Ashbery Collages

October 30, 2019

The Beinecke Library has acquired five collages by poet and artist John Ashbery

David (Jhave) Johnston’s Machine Poetry (Yale Herald)

October 28, 2019

I'd never been to a reading in the Beinecke before, but I was pleasantly surprised to see that the four ambitiously long, semi-circular lines of chairs on the mezzanine were mostly full by the time I arrived at 4:55 p.m. Perhaps I walked into Jhave Johnston’s reading on Oct. 17 overly expecting to have the words to describe what I would see, knowing as I did that the reading/performance was part of the current Beinecke exhibition, Beyond Words: Experimental Poetry & the Avant-Garde

Yale Younger Poet prizewinners and judges discuss the honor and their craft

October 21, 2019

For a poet who is little known, winning an award like the Yale Younger Poets Prize can be life changing, noted Airea D. Matthews, who earned that honor in 2016. In a panel discussion on Oct. 11, Matthews and several other poets who have won the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition agreed that the prize, awarded since 1919 by Yale University Press, has hugely benefitted their careers, but some said there can be a downside to prizewinning.