The Yale campus and the streets of New Haven will literally become a poem for a few hours on the afternoon of Friday, September 27. Spelled out in letters the size of human bodies, the word TRANSCULTURALISM will set out from Beinecke Library at precisely 3 p.m., breaking apart and reassembling to form other words as Alain Arias-Misson leads a group of 16 volunteers on a perambulatory route of poetic permutations past various symbolic sites across town.

Monique Wittig (1935 – 2003) was an influential feminist writer who explored the intersections of gender roles, sexuality, language and literary form. Her first novel, L’Opoponax, published in 1964, was awarded the Prix Médicis and Les Guérillères, from 1969, became a touchstone for revolutionary expression, a source of ideas for many major feminist and lesbian thinkers and writers.

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.

Part of the 2019 Windham-Campbell Festival: https://windhamcampbell.org

Part of the 2019 Windham-Campbell Festival: https://windhamcampbell.org