Poetry at Beinecke Library

Poetry collections, events, and news.
  • The Beinecke’s Walt Whitman Collection

    Walt Whitman Collection

    October 25, 2006

  • Mary Barnard

    Mary Barnard Papers

    October 23, 2006

    Poet Mary Barnard was born in 1909 in Vancouver, Washington. In 1932, she graduated from Reed College in nearby Portland, Oregon, where she was introduced to...
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    E. F. Eldridge Papers

    October 22, 2006

    Dr. Edward Fayette Eldridge, American physician, poet, and novelist, was born in New York in 1855 or 1857. He attended the State Normal School in Cortland, New...
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    Ray DiPalma Papers

    October 17, 2006

    The Yale Collection of American Literature has acquired the papers of poet and visual artist Ray DiPalma. The author of some thirty books of poetry and visual...
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    Gary Soto Papers

    October 15, 2006

    The Beinecke Library’s Gary Soto Papers include manuscripts, films, correspondence, ephemera, and books documenting the Chicano writer’s life and work. A...
  • Marjorie Welish

    Marjorie Welish Archive

    September 25, 2006

    The Yale Collection of American Literature has acquired the literary archive of poet, painter, and art critic Marjorie Welish. Welish is the author of several...
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    WGCP Resources

    September 23, 2006

    WGCP Meeting Minutes Archive (2004- ) Cipher Journal Double Change Drunken Boat OULIPO Dossier curated by Jean-Jacques Poucel Electronic Poetry Center...
  • Native American Poetry Collection

    September 15, 2006

    The Beinecke Library has acquired a collection of more than 325 books and chapbooks of poetry by modern and contemporary Native American poets. This extensive...
  • Gerard Malanga

    Gerard Malanga Papers

    September 14, 2006

    The Yale Collection of American Literature has acquired the archive of poet and photographer Gerard Malanga, author of numerous books of poetry, including No...