Poetry at Beinecke Library

Poetry collections, events, and news.

Windham-Campbell Literary Festival features readings, talks, and a dance party
September 16, 2019
New Research From Beinecke Collections
September 14, 2019
Recent books based on research in Beinecke Library collections
Reflections on Walt Whitman at 200 by Nancy Kuhl (North American Review)
September 13, 2019
Poet Wayne Koestenbaum’s archive ‘a memory lane of mental calories spent’
September 11, 2019
Over the course of a varied and prolific career, Wayne Koestenbaum has published poetry collections, volumes of cultural criticism, novels, and a libretto. Two years ago, he plunged into an entirely different sort of project, one that involved managing Excel spreadsheets and contemplating his unpublished work.
Readings at Yale University
September 6, 2019
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Four Poems from Langston Hughes’s Spanish Civil War Verse (Anne Donlon and Evelyn Scaramella, PMLA 2019)
August 1, 2019
NEW SCHOLARSHIP Sophie Seita on Little Magazines
July 19, 2019
Provisional Avant-Gardes: Little Magazine Communities from Dada to Digital By Beinecke Library Research Fellow Sophie Seita
Yale Marks Walt Whitman's 200th Birthday With Pop-Up Exhibit (WSHU Radio)
May 31, 2019
Beinecke Library Pop-up Exhibit Celebrates Walt Whitman Bicentennial
May 21, 2019

Walt Whitman’s last pair of eyeglasses, two copies of the first edition of Leaves of Grass , and photographs of the iconic American author are among the items...
Many to Remember by Rachel Kaufman
April 25, 2019
Many to Remember, a collection of archival poetry by Rachel Kaufman