Mei-mei Berssenbrugge has been named the winner of Yale’s 2021 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry . The Bollingen Prize, established by Paul Mellon in 1949,...
Students and scholars often wonder about how literary archives take shape, their gaps and depths, their organization, structure. A wide range of factors may determine what happens to a writer's papers both during and after their lifetime.
An airplane is made for writers: Gertrude Stein’s First Flight, November 7, 1934 -- a vignette from the exhibition Road Show: Travel Papers in American Literature
Well known on campus and around the world as a site of important historical documents of all kinds, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript is also a regional...
Beinecke Library resources for contemplating and studying a broad range of topics related to writing the self: memoir, self-portraiture, self-presentation,...
We asked Justin, poet and student at the Yale Prison Education Initiative, to reflect on creativity in 2020. In response, he shared this poem, a rich and...