Poetry at Beinecke Library

Poetry collections, events, and news.

1855 Leaves of Grass
March 23, 2018
The Yale Collection of American Literature is home to 6 copies of the first edition of Walt Whitman’s extraordinarily important 1855 first edition of Leaves of Grass.
Roberto Harrison & Carmen Giménez Smith At Beinecke
March 21, 2018
Roberto Harrison & Carmen Giménez Smith, poetry readings.
+ The Art of Collaboration
February 23, 2018
+ The Art of Collaboration explores the excitement and power of separate elements combining to make things that are new, beautiful, strange, and memorable.
The Art of Collaboration: The Children’s Books of Russell and Lillian Hoban
February 19, 2018
Russell and Lillian Hoban began their decade-long collaboration on children’s books with Herman the Loser (1961).
The Art of Collaboration: Studies in Creativity
February 19, 2018
The best creative collaborations call into question the mythologies of individual genius and invite us to consider the additive possibilities of thinking and working together.
Ordinary Objects, Unusual Books
February 9, 2018
A Beinecke Top Ten List of unique and limited edition books made using everyday objects in unusual ways.
Whitman, Dickinson, and 19C American Poetry
February 7, 2018
Resources for Professor Michael Warner's Spring 2018 course, Whitman, Dickinson, and 19C American Poetry (English 866).
Rosanna Warren Reading
January 24, 2018
Poet Rosanna Warren will deliver the inaugural Mark Strand Memorial Reading on Wednesday, February 7, 2018, at 4pm at the Beinecke Library. This event is free and open to all.
Contemporary Poetry Seminar
January 9, 2018
The Beinecke Library’s Yale Collection of American Literature is co-sponsoring a Spring 2017 upper-level seminar with the Creative Writing Program of the Department of English: ENGL 476a, Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Richard Deming, Director of Creative Writing, will lead the course.
Christmas Cheer from a Lean Year: The 1950 Holiday Cards of Langston Hughes (Hyperallergic)
December 15, 2017