The series begins with poet Muriel Rukeyser and will weave through various poets of the twentieth century, using Beinecke’s collections as a means of connecting disparate figures to one another.
Of Flesh and Metal: The Artificial Yet Living Being in Futurist Art and Literature, Sophia Maxine Farmer, Visiting Graduate Student Fellow at the Beinecke Library, August 2018
In 1828 famed artist and ornithologist John James Audubon published a description of the “eagle of Washington” (Falco washingtonii), a new bird species that he was the first to formally name.
