Poetry at Beinecke Library

Poetry collections, events, and news.

Beinecke Digital Library, always open online, continues to grow
May 19, 2020

While physical facilities may have closed on March 16, staff throughout Yale Library have been working remotely to provide services to students, faculty, the...
Creativity in Isolation: Charles Bernstein
May 12, 2020

We asked 2019 Bollingen Prize-winning poet Charles Bernstein what he has been thinking about, working on, and reading in this time of isolation and quarantine...
Creativity in Isolation: Poet Toi Derricotte on Writing and Revising
April 30, 2020
Poet Toi Derrocotte on writing and revising poems in isolation
2020 Yale College Poets Reading Now Online
April 21, 2020

The annual Yale College Poets Reading sponsored by Yale Collection of American Literature (YCAL) reading series, cosponsored by the Creative Writing Program in...
Yale College Poets 2020
April 14, 2020
Our annual student poets reading will take place online
Out of the archives, onto Zoom: Some early notes on teaching online with special collections in a time of quarantine
April 7, 2020

With colleagues throughout the Yale University Library , and across the university, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library staff have been working to assist...
Love in Wartime
April 6, 2020

The Beinecke Library is pleased to provide digital access to more than 500 letters, long thought to have been lost, exchanged during the 1940s by poet Maxine...
Contemporary Asian American Poets: A Top Ten List
April 1, 2020
A brief introduction to ten wonderful contemporary poets in the Yale Collection of American Literature.
Women’s voices dominate the 2020 Windham-Campbell Prizes
March 19, 2020
Yale University today announced a female-dominated slate of recipients for the 2020 Windham-Campbell Prizes. The eight writers, including seven women, were honored for their literary achievement or promise and will receive $165,000 each to support their work. This year’s prize recipients are: in fiction, Yiyun Lee (United States/China) and Namwali Serpell (Zambia); in nonfiction, Maria Tumarkin (Australia) and Anne Boyer (United States); in poetry, Bhanu Kapil (United Kingdom/India) and Jonah Mixon-Webster (United States); and in drama, Julia Cho (United States) and Aleshea Harris (United States).
NEVER TOO LATE RACHEL CHURNER ON THE LATE STYLE OF EILEEN MYLES AND YVONNE RAINER (Artforum)
February 26, 2020
LAST FALL, at the New School in New York, poet Eileen Myles presented an essay they’d written on the acquisition of their archives by Yale University’s Beinecke Library ...