Plagues from the Past: readings from Oedipus Tyrannos and the Iliad, Emily Wilson Reading from her celebrated translations of classic texts; followed by a conversation with Professor Emily Greenwood, Yale Department of Classics, Wednesday, October 7, 2020, 4 PM
When a student named Justin wrote pieces for a creative writing workshop offered by the Yale Prison Education Initiative (YPEI) this summer, he felt like he was sharing his heart with the world.
The workshop, which was offered to inmates at the MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institute in Suffield, Connecticut, made him feel his heart was “treated as a heart should be,” Justin said.
Well known on campus and around the world as a site of important historical documents of all kinds, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript is also a regional...
Literary archives allow us to see how the creative process unfolds as writers make new work; we can also see many steps along the path from rough notes to published book.
We asked poet and translator Peter Cole to reflect on creativity in 2020. He answered by speaking about about writing in times of extremity and art as response...
We asked artist Susan Bee to reflect on creativity in 2020. She gave us a video tour of her Brooklyn studio, including views of a dynamic new body of work she...
Prolific and award-winning poet and performer, Jeremy Reed, shares a work-in-process as his contribution to Creativity in Isolation. In collaboration with...
From University Librarian Susan Gibbons, June 9, 2020 From Beinecke Library Director Edwin C. Schroeder, June 10, 2020: Last week’s Beinecke Library e-...
In response to the Beinecke Library's invitation to reflect on creativity in this time of isolation, Arthur Sze shared a reading of his poem “Acequia del Llano”
