Poetry at Beinecke Library

Poetry collections, events, and news.

  • Poetry Reading: C. S. Giscombe

    September 24, 2012

    C. S. Giscombe, Poetry Reading Thursday, October 18th, 4:00pm Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series Contact...

  • Welcome Gallup Fellow Alexander Runchman

    September 5, 2012

    The Yale Collection of American Literature Welcomes Donald C. Gallup Fellowship in American literature Alexander Runchman, Trinity College Dublin. Fellowship...

  • Exile as Destiny Online

    July 23, 2012

    Beinecke Library announces the opening of its latest web exhibition, Exile as Destiny: Czesław Miłosz and America . The web gallery includes selections from...

  • 88 Books that Shaped America

    July 10, 2012

    The Library of Congress has recently identified a list of important American books: 88 Books that Shaped America . The list (see below) includes the work of...

  • Gertrude Stein in the News

    June 25, 2012

    Reviews of new editions of several Gertrude Stein volumes, notices of recent scholarship and exhibition catalogs, and discussions of Stein’s life and work have...

  • Beinecke Fellow Named Poet Laureate

    June 7, 2012

    Congratulations to 2009 James Weldon Johnson Memorial Fellow Natasha Trethewey, the next Poet Laureate of the United States. New Laureate Looks Deep Into...

  • Student Research in Beinecke Collections

    June 4, 2012

    Zoe Mercer-Golden, Yale Class of 2013 Radical Reading Practices in the Archives of H.D. and Gertrude Stein: A New Approach to Autobiography This paper was born...

  • Rudyard Kipling: 3 Days Only

    June 1, 2012

    Rudyard Kipling: 3 Days Only Friday, June 1 - Monday, June 4, 2012Unique opportunity to view treasures from the Beinecke collection. Yale’s Kipling...

  • Henri Chopin Papers

    May 18, 2012

    At left: Chopin at a sound poetry performance. At right: sample dactylopoème or typewriterpoem. Henri Chopin: An Introduction May 15, 2012 — Sara Softness...

  • New from Beinecke Collections

    May 14, 2012

    New from Yale Univeristy Press My Dear Governess: The Letters of Edith Wharton to Anna Bahlmann Edited by Irene Goldman-Price An exciting archive came to...