[Yale-readings] TODAY, 4 pm: Susan Howe - Beinecke Fellows' Talk
Kuhl, Nancy
nancy.kuhl at yale.edu
Mon Apr 15 10:18:04 EDT 2013
I have already shown that / space is God
--Susan Howe, "Fragment of the Wedding Dress of Sarah Pierpont Edwards"
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Please join us TODAY at 4 pm on the Beinecke Library mezzanine:
At this week's Fellows' Tea, Susan Howe, poet and recipient of the 2011 Bollingen Prize in American Poetry, will give a gallery talk on a fragment of Sarah Pierpont Edwards's wedding dress, the subject of her "Fragment of Sarah Pierpont Edwards's Wedding Dress," in Souls of the Labadie Tract (New Direction Books, 2007). Both the dress fragment and Howe's working notebook are on display in the current exhibition, By Hand: A Celebration of the Manuscript Collections of Yale's Beinecke Library.
Upcoming talks in the Fellows' Tea series include:
April 22: Nancy Kuhl (Curator of Poetry, Yale Collection of American Literature) on Ernest "Hem" Hemingway's postcards to Gertrude Stein
April 29: George Miles (William Robertson Coe Curator, Yale Collection of Western Americana) on the surveying notes and map from the Lewis & Clark expedition
Join us on Mondays at 4 pm<http://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/fellowsteas> at the Beinecke Library for a gallery talk on an exhibition object, followed by tea and scones with the Beinecke Library curators and staff, visiting research fellows, and researchers.
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