Poetry at Beinecke Library

Poetry collections, events, and news.

Gertrude Stein's Library
February 14, 2017

Writers’ libraries and personal book collections have sometimes arrived at Beinecke Library—in whole or in part—along with literary archives. And like literary...
The Passover Question, a new play by Erica Wachs
February 9, 2017

Announcing a staged reading of The Passover Question a new play written by Erica Wachs (JE ‘18) based on research in the Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas...
Poetry Reading: Tonya Foster, Layli Long Soldier, & Safiya Sinclair
February 3, 2017
The State of the Art: Celebrating New Poetry. Tonya Foster, Layli Long Soldier, & Safiya Sinclair, Poetry Readings & Round Table Discussion
Yusef Komunyakaa Reading, 2-23, 4:00 PM
February 3, 2017
Celebrated for his powerful and carefully crafted poems, Komunyakaa has been awarded numerous prizes and honors, including the Pulitzer Prize, Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, and the Louisiana Writers Award.
New Scholarship: John Beall on Pound and Hemingway
January 29, 2017

Announcing new scholarship by John Beall from the Ezra Pound collections at Beinecke Library. Beall referred to the Beinecke’s Ezra Pound collections in his...
Susan Howe Awarded the Frost Medal
January 25, 2017

The Yale Collection of American Literature congratulates poet Susan Howe ( YCAL MSS 338 ), 2017 Poetry Society of America Frost Medal recipient. From the...
Paterson: Poetry on Film
January 20, 2017

Jim Jarmusch’s new film, “Paterson” features poets William Carlos Willams and Ron Padgett, whose papers are in the Yale Collection of American Literature. See...
From the Archive: New Poems by George Oppen
January 9, 2017

New Poems by George Oppen David B. Hobbs, “A Brief Introduction to 21 Poems by George Oppen,” in Journal of Modern Literature, Volume 40, Number 1, Fall 2016,...
Poetry Since 1950
November 11, 2016
Resources for Professor Langdon Hammer’s Poetry Since 1950 Class, Fall 2016.
Fred Moten Poetry Reading 11-30
November 11, 2016
Fred Moten is author of In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition (University of Minnesota Press), Hughson’s Tavern (Leon Works), B. Jenkins (Duke University Press), The Feel Trio (Letter Machine Editions) and co-author, with Stefano Harney, of The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study (Minor Compositions/Autonomedia).