Poetry Readings: Terrance Hayes & Major Jackson

Please join us for poetry readings by Terrance Hayes and Major Jackson on Thursday, February 1st, 2007, 4pm. This event is co-sponsored by the African American Studies Department. A reception will follow; this event is free and open to the public. For additional information about the Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series please visit https://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com/2006-2007-readings-at-beinecke/.

Terrance Hayes is the author of Hip Logic, Muscular Music, and most recently, Wind in a Box. He has been awarded a Whiting Writers Award, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, a National Poetry Series award, a Pushcart Prize, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.

Major Jackson is the author of two collections of poetry, Hoops and Leaving Saturn, winner of the 2000 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award. He is a recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and has been honored by the Pew Fellowship in the Arts and the Witter Bynner Foundation in conjunction with the Library of Congress. Major Jackson is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Vermont and a faculty member of the Bennington Writing Seminars.

For more information about and examples of Terrance Hayes’s and Major Jackson’s work visit:

Terrance Hayes
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/437
http://www.pitt.edu/~nidus/archives/winter2005/current/hayes.html
http://www.jubilat.org/n6/hayes.html

Major Jackson
http://www.majorjackson.com/
http://www.pewarts.org/95/Jackson/
http://www.cavecanempoets.org/pages/poems/oregon.html

 

Spring 2007 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