Natasha Trethewey, Poetry Reading
Wednesday, November 18, 4:00 p.m.
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
Contact:nancy.kuhl@yale.edu
Natasha Trethewey is the author of Domestic Work (selected by Rita Dove as the winner of the inaugural Cave Canem Poetry Prize for the best first book by an African American poet), Bellocq’s Ophelia, and Native Guard, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Trethewey has received awards and fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation. She is Professor of English at Emory University where she holds the Phillis Wheatley Distinguished Chair in Poetry. She is the 2009 James Weldon Johnson Fellow at the Beinecke Library.
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Lyn Hejinian, Poetry Reading
Tuesday, April 13, 4:00 pm
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
Contact: nancy.kuhl@yale.edu
Poet, essayist, and translator, Lyn Hejinian is the author or co-author of numerous books of poetry, including The Fatalist (2003), The Beginner (2000), Happily (2000), Sight (with Leslie Scalapino, 1999), The Cold of Poetry (1994), The Cell (1992), My Life (1980), Writing Is an Aid to Memory (1978), and A Thought Is the Bride of What Thinking (1976). She is the author of a collection of essays, The Language of Inquiry (2000). She has been awarded grants and fellowships from the California Arts Council, the Poetry Fund, the Academy of American Poets, and the National Endowment of the Arts.
For more information about and examples of Lyn Hejinian’s work, visit the following sites:
Lyn Hejinain at the Electronic Poetry Center (EPC): http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/hejinian/
Lyn Hejinain at the Academy of American Poets : http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/396
Lyn Hejinian on PennSound: http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Hejinian.php
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