Eileen Myles delivers the annual Windham-Campbell Lecture “Why I Write.” Yale University President Peter Salovey presents the 2019 awards in poetry, fiction, drama, and nonfiction.
Myles will be introduced by Kathryn Lofton, Professor of Religious Studies, American Studies, History, and Divinity.
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Part of the 2019 Windham-Campbell Festival: https://windhamcampbell.org
Part of the 2019 Windham-Campbell Festival: https://windhamcampbell.org
The festival’s signature closing event will include short readings by all eight of this year’s prize recipients.
This year’s prize recipients are: in fiction, Danielle McLaughlin (Ireland) and David Chariandy (Canada); in nonfiction, Raghu Karnad (India) and Rebecca Solnit (United States); in poetry, Ishion Hutchinson (Jamaica) and Kwame Dawes (Ghana/Jamaica/United States); in drama, Young Jean Lee (United States) and Patricia Cornelius (Australia).
Part of the 2019 Windham-Campbell Festival: https://windhamcampbell.org
Part of the 2019 Windham-Campbell Festival: https://windhamcampbell.org
First, above all, I live forever. And
thereafter redecorate paradise
in the majesty of the Roof Nightclub,
DJ Lucifer, at predawn hours
terrifies the floorboards to give way to
Apollyon’s abyss, reflecting scarred light
on the wall. The mirror alive with tremors…
Part of the 2019 Windham-Campbell Festival: https://windhamcampbell.org
Part of the 2019 Windham-Campbell Festival: https://windhamcampbell.org
Hosted at the New Haven Free Public Library, 133 Elm Street
Cosponsors: NHFPL and Public Humanities at Yale; part of the Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
From the Poetry Foundation:
The third of this fall’s series on book history and the environmental humanities.
November 13’s event features Sarah Kay, Professor of French Literature, Thought and Culture, New York University, on “Medieval Books from the Spheres to the Critical Zone: Lion and Panther Singers and their Manuscripts.”
