Jen Hadfield’s Storm Pegs gives us a glimpse into her life as a poet in Shetland Islands. Poet Danielle Chapman’s memoir Holler tells of her military childhood in the south. In this wide-ranging conversation, the poets discuss poetry and life, and how they chose to write about them in prose.
Hanif Abdurraqib and Christina Sharpe are two of the most incisive cultural critics of our time. Their work explores what it means to be and to make art as a Black person in the present, but also in the long wake of slavery and colonialism. Esteemed professor and author Daphne Brooks leads the pair in a conversation about Black artistry.
Jen Hadfield’s legendary “Write with Me” workshop sessions have flourished online, providing writers from everywhere a chance to write alongside one of today’s most dynamic poets in a safe, productive space. On two consecutive days, Jen will bring these workshops to the festival tent. Don’t miss this opportunity to write alongside Jen and other poets. Bring a notebook and a pen!
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Kathryn Scanlan often makes fiction out of the stuff of fact: recorded conversations, old journals, and whatever other documentary artifacts she can find form the foundation on which she builds her fiction. Novelist and former Yale Review deputy editor Elliott Holt talks to her about the process of turning facts into fictions.
WEATHER ALERT: In the case of a weather disruption, all events scheduled in the Cross-Campus Tent will be moved to the Beinecke Library Mezzanine. Check our social media for updates.
Deirdre Madden has always been fascinated, both in fiction, and IRL, with siblings, especially siblings like Theo and Vincent Van Gogh, whose relationship is intimately bound with art-making. Julia Rooney is herself an artist engaged in a long-term artistic collaboration with her sister, a poet. The two will discuss their mutual interest in exploring these complex relationship dynamics and how they can both help and hinder the artistic process.
Join us for free food and music as we welcome the 2024 recipients to campus! Free food from the Big Green Truck Pizza, Pitaziki, Taqueria Tlaxcala, and Sweet Cupcasions. Music by Yale’s own DJ VNA.
All the President’s Men (Alan J. Pakula, 1976, 35mm, 138 mins)
New print! Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman star as Woodward and Bernstein, Washington Post reporters with a scoop that will take down a president. Pakula’s political thriller won four Academy Awards, including nods for Jason Robards and writer William Goldman. 35mm print from the Yale Film Archive.
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A talk in conjunction with the exhibition “Remembering ‘Amnesia’: Rebooting the First Computerized Novel” on view now in the Hanke Gallery at Sterling Memorial Library.
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“Amnesia”—a work of interactive science fiction by Thomas M. Disch, published in 1986—was an early attempt to bring video games into the realm of literary art by translating a novelist’s script into a medium that readers could only experience by interacting with a computer.
