Born in 1920, Barbara Guest is associated with the group of poets known as the first generation of the New York school of poetry, which includes Frank O’...
Please join us for poetry readings by Terrance Hayes and Major Jackson on Thursday, February 1st, 2007, 4pm. This event is co-sponsored by the African American...
Terrance Hayes & Major Jackson, Poetry Reading Thursday , February 1st, 4 pm Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street Yale Collection of American Literature...
Recordings of events in the Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series are now available for streaming from the Beinecke Library. The collection...
The Yale Collection of American Literature has acquired the archives of poet and novelist Gustaf Sobin (1935-2005), an American who lived most of his adult...
Claude McKay (1890-1948), one of the major figures of the Harlem Renaissance, wrote several collections of poetry, novels, short stories, non-fiction, and...
The papers of poet and translator Robert Fitzgerald (1910-1985) have been fully processed and are open for research. Fitzgerald’s publications include the...
Poet Maxine Kumin is the author of some fifteen books of poetry, a memoir titled Inside the Halo and Beyond: The Anatomy of a Recovery, three collections of...
The Beinecke’s Walt Whitman Collection contains letters, manuscripts, photographs, art, and other material dating from 1842-1949 and features the Whitmania of Yale benefactors Louis Mayer Rabinowitz and Arian Van Sinderen.