American expatriates Sara and Gerald Murphy lived in Paris and traveled widely in Europe with their three children throughout the 1920s. Their holiday home in...
Audrey Ruan, “William Carlos Williams: Physician Poet Scrawls Theory of Medical Humanities Throughout Prescription Pad” on the Medical Humanities blog . From...
Modernism’s Metronome: Meter and Twentieth-Century Poetics by Ben Glaser; forthcoming from Johns Hopkins Univeristy Press From the publisher: Despite...
On Wednesday, translator Emily Wilson GRD ’01 delivered the 2020 edition of the Mark Strand Memorial Reading, where she read from her in-progress translations of Homer’s “Iliad” and Sophocles’ “Oedipus Tyrannus” on a Zoom webinar.
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library hosts the Mark Strand Memorial Reading Series and invites accomplished American poets to read their work.
The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded on Thursday to Louise Glück , distinguished poet and Professor in Yale’s English Department, “for her unmistakable...
Plagues from the Past: readings from Oedipus Tyrannos and the Iliad, Emily Wilson Reading from her celebrated translations of classic texts; followed by a conversation with Professor Emily Greenwood, Yale Department of Classics, Wednesday, October 7, 2020, 4 PM
When a student named Justin wrote pieces for a creative writing workshop offered by the Yale Prison Education Initiative (YPEI) this summer, he felt like he was sharing his heart with the world.
The workshop, which was offered to inmates at the MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institute in Suffield, Connecticut, made him feel his heart was “treated as a heart should be,” Justin said.
Well known on campus and around the world as a site of important historical documents of all kinds, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript is also a regional...
