Fall 2006 Readings at Yale University

Katharine Weber, Fiction Reading
Tuesday, September 12, 4 pm
Slifka Center, 80 Wall Street
Contact: http://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
http://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
http://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.

Maureen Owen Collection of Greenwich Village Poetry

 

The Maureen Owen Collection of Greenwich Village Poetry & Audio Poetry Archives at the Beinecke Library

The Yale Collection of American Literature at the Beinecke Library is pleased to announce the launch of its first digitized collection of poetry readings, the Maureen Owen Collection of Greenwich Village Poetry. The digitizing and processing of the Owen Collection, the result of broad collaboration between archivists, systems specialists, and curatorial staff, will serve as a model for providing access to audio poetry archives at the library.

A recent gift to the collection, the Owen Collection is a rich gathering of reel-to-reel tape and cassette recordings of poets reading their work at literary events held by the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery in New York City during the 1970s and 80s. The collection also includes recordings of the poet Susan Howe’s radio shows on WBAI Radio in New York from the same period, on which poets can be heard reading and discussing their work and that of other poets. Poets and writers represented in the Owen Collection include Russell Banks, Ted Berrigan, Elizabeth Bishop, Barbara Guest, George Oppen, Ron Padgett, Charles Rezkinoff, Adrienne Rich, Ed Sanders, Ron Silliman, Jack Spicer, and Virgil Thomson. Digital sound files of the recordings in the Owen collection are available directly through the collection finding aid http://webtext.library.yale.edu/xml2html/beinecke.green.con.html; these files can be accessed from any Yale computer work station or from off-campus with Yale log in.

Audio poetry archives currently being processed for digital access include recordings of the Yale Collection of American Literature Readings Series at the Beinecke Library. In addition to readings by many important American poets, such as Robert Creeley, Adrienne Rich, Rita Dove, and Sherman Alexie, the collection includes recordings of the annual Yale Student Poets reading by Yale University graduate and undergraduate student poets.

Maureen Owen Collection of Greenwich Village Poetry http://webtext.library.yale.edu/xml2html/beinecke.green.con.html