Poetry at Beinecke Library

Please join us for a poetry reading by poet Joy Harjo on Wednesday, April 9th, at  4 pm, at the Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel Street (please note venue change). This event is co-sponsored by the Yale Collection of American Literature at the Beinecke Library and the Native American Cultural Center at Yale. The reading is free and open to the public.

Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, poet Joy Harjo is an enrolled member of the Muskogee Tribe. She is the author of many collections of poetry, including How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems, A Map to the Next World: Poems, The Woman Who Fell From the Sky, which received the Oklahoma Book Arts Award, and In Mad Love and War, which received an American Book Award. She has received the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award, the American Indian Distinguished Achievement in the Arts Award, the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund Writer’s Award, the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship.

For more information about Joy Harjo and examples of her work visit:

http://www.joyharjo.com/

http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/60

http://www.nativewiki.org/Joy_Harjo

Please join us for a poetry reading by Yusef Komunyakaa on Thursday, September 20, 4 pm. This event is free and open to the public. The Beinecke Library is located at 121 Wall Street, New Haven.

Pulitzer Prize winner Yusef Komunyakaa is the author of many collections of poetry, including Pleasure Dome: New & Collected Poems, 1975-1999, Talking Dirty to the Gods, Dien Cai Dau, and Neon Vernacular: New & Selected Poems 1977-1989. He has received awards from the Louisiana Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and he was awarded the Bronze Star for his service in Vietnam, where he served as a correspondent and managing editor of the Southern Cross.

For additional information about African American Studies at the Beinecke Library visit: http://beineckejwj.wordpress.com.

For more information about and examples of Yusef Komunyakaa’s work visit:
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/22
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/komunyakaa/poetry.htm
http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/komunyakaa.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yusef_Komunyakaa

Fall 2007 Readings at Beinecke Library

Yusef Komunyakaa
Thursday, September 20th, 4 pm
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series

Yusef Komunyakaa is the author of many collections of poetry, including Pleasure Dome: New & Collected Poems, 1975-1999, Talking Dirty to the Gods, Magic City, Dien Cai Dau, Thieves of Paradise, and Neon Vernacular: New & Selected Poems 1977-1989, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. He is also the author of Blues Notes: Essays, Interviews & Commentaries. He has received the William Faulkner Prize from the Université de Rennes, the Thomas Forcade Award, the Hanes Poetry Prize, fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Louisiana Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Bronze Star for his service in Vietnam, where he served as a correspondent and managing editor of the Southern Cross.

Charles Bernstein
Tuesday, October 16th, 4 pm
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series

Charles Bernstein is the author of some 20 collections of poetry including Girly Man, With Strings, Republics of Reality: 1975-1995, Dark City , Rough Trades, The Nude Formalism, and Stigma. He is the author of volumes of prose and criticism including My Way: Speeches and Poems, A Poetics, and Content’s Dream: Essays 1975-1984. Charles Bernstein was the co-founder the influential journal L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E and the co-editor of the anthology The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book. He has written librettos for several operas and has worked with composers such as Ben Yarmolinsky, Brian Ferneyhough, and Dean Drummond. He has been awarded fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He is Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.

Christian Bök
Thursday, November 1, 4pm
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Co-Sponsored by the Modern Books and Manuscripts Collection
and the Beinecke Library-Whitney Humanities Center
Working Group in Contemporary Poetry

Christian Bök is a Canadian experimental poet. He is the author of numerous books, including Crystallography, a pataphysical encyclopedia, and Eunoia, a lipogram that uses only one vowel in each of its five chapters; Eunoia was awarded the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2002. He is a professor at the University of Calgary.

Graham Foust and Elizabeth Robinson
Thursday, November 15th, 4 pm
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series

Graham Foust is the author of three books of poetry, Necessary Stranger, Leave the Room to Itself, and As in Every Deafness and numerous poetry chapbooks. He was born in Knoxville, Tennessee and raised in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. He is currently on the faculty of the Master of Fine Arts program in Creative Writing at St. Mary’s College of California.

Elizabeth Robinson is the author of numerous books of poetry, including Pure Descent, winner of the National Poetry Series, Apprehend, winner of the Fence Modern Poets Series, Under that Silky Roof, House Made of Silver, and Bed of Lists. She has been awarded the Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative Poetry and a grant from the Fund for Poetry. She is co-editor of 26, a magazine of poetry and poetics, EtherDome, a press dedicated to publishing the work of emerging women poets, and Instance Press.

Frank Bidart, Poetry Reading
Tuesday, November 27th, 4 pm
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Co-Sponsored by the Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series and the Department of English

Frank Bidart is the winner of the 2007 Bollingen Prize for poetry. He is the author of numerous books of poetry, including In the Western Night: Collected Poems, 1965-90, Desire, Star Dust, and Music Like Dirt. He has received the Wallace Stevens Award, the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize, and the Bobbitt Prize for Poetry. He has taught at Brandeis University and, since 1972, Wellesley College. In 2003 he was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

A regularly-updated list of Fall 2007 readings scheduled at Yale University can be found on line: 2007-2008 Readings at Yale University

Terrance Hayes & Major Jackson, Poetry Reading
Thursday , February 1st, 4 pm
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
Contact: nancy.kuhl@yale.edu

Auden at 100: a Centenary Celebration of W.H. Auden
Readings and performances by Anne Fadiman, Langdon Hammer, John Hollander, Richard Lalli, Penelope Laurans, J. D. McClatchy, & Edward Mendelson
Wednesday, February 21st, 5 pm
Sponsored by the Whitney Humanities Center, the Yale Review,
the Department of English, and the Beinecke Library
Whitney Humanites Center, 53 Wall Street
Contact: (203) 432-0670

Nathaniel Tarn, Poetry Reading
Thursday, February 22nd, 4 pm
Sponsored by the Collection of Modern Books
and Manuscripts, Beinecke Library
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Contact: nancy.kuhl@yale.edu

Dave Eggers, Fiction Reading
Tuesday, February 27th, 7:00pm
Sponsored by the Yale Review
Sudler Hall, Room 201
William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall Street
Contact: susan.bianconi@yale.edu

Yale University Creative Writing Faculty Reading
Amy Bloom, Donald Margulies, & Caryl Phillips
Thursday, March 1st, 7pm
Location TBA
Sponsored by the Department of English
Contact: susan.bianconi@yale.edu

Roddy Lumsden, Poetry Reading
Tuesday, April 10th, 6pm
Location TBA
Graduate Poets Reading Series
Contact:susannah.hollister@yale.edu

Ron Padgett, Poetry Reading
Wednesday, April 11th, 4 pm
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
Contact: nancy.kuhl@yale.edu

Yale Alumni Reading Series
Elizabeth Alexander, John Guare, & Claire Messud
Monday, April 16th, 7pm
Location TBA
Sponsored by the Department of English
Contact: susan.bianconi@yale.edu

Vona Groarke & Conor O’Callaghan, Poetry Reading
Monday, April 16th, 6pm
Location TBA
Graduate Poets Reading Series
Contact: susannah.hollister@yale.edu

Yale Student Poets Reading
Wednesday, April 25th, 4pm
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
Contact: nancy.kuhl@yale.edu

Katharine Weber, Fiction Reading
Tuesday, September 12, 4 pm
Slifka Center, 80 Wall Street
Contact: www.yale.edu/slifka/index.html

John Ashbery, Poetry Reading
Wednesday, September 20th, 4 pm
Battell Chapel, Corner of College & Elm Streets
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
Contact: nancy.kuhl@yale.edu

Henri Cole, Poetry Reading
Monday, September 25th, 6 pm
Saint Anthony’s Hall, Corner of College and Wall Streets
Cosponsored by the Department of English &
The Yale Review
Contact: susan.bianconi@yale.edu

Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, Reading & Conversation
Thursday, September 28th, Time TBA
Location TBA
Francis Conversations with Writers & Editors Series
Contact: clare.schlegel@yale.edu

Nikky Finney, Poetry Reading
Thursday, October 5th, 4:15 pm
Divinity Bookstore, 409 Prospect Street
Literature & Spirituality Series
Contact: Yale Institute of Sacred Music
www.yale.edu/ism

Yale University Creative Writing Faculty Reading
Amy Bloom, John Crowley, Anne Fadiman,
Louise Glück, John Hollander,
Donald Margulies, J.D. McClatchy,
& Fred Strebeigh
Monday, October 9th, 7 pm
Location TBA
Sponsored by the Department of English
Contact: susan.bianconi@yale.edu

Fanny Howe, Poetry Reading
Wednesday, October 18th, 4 pm
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
Contact: nancy.kuhl@yale.edu

John McPhee, Reading
Thursday, November 2nd, 7:30 pm
Location TBA
John Christophe Schlesinger Visiting Writer Fund
Contact: susan.bianconi@yale.edu

Franz Wright, Poetry Reading
Thursday, November 2nd, 4:15 pm
Divinity Bookstore, 409 Prospect Street
Literature & Spirituality Series
Contact: Yale Institute of Sacred Music
www.yale.edu/ism

Ian McEwan, Reading
Wednesday, November 8th, 7 pm
Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street
John Christophe Schlesinger Visiting Writer Fund
Contact: susan.bianconi@yale.edu

Natasha Trethewey, Poetry Reading
Wednesday, November 8th, 4 pm
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Cosponsored by
the Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
& the African American Studies Department
Contact: nancy.kuhl@yale.edu

Juliana Gray & Jeffrey Harrison, Poetry Reading
Thursday, November 9th, 6 pm
Location TBA
Graduate Poets Reading Series
Contact: susannah.hollister@yale.edu

All events are free and open to the public.
Check the Yale Weekly Bulletin for additions and changes.