From nancy.kuhl at yale.edu Mon Sep 10 09:21:00 2018 From: nancy.kuhl at yale.edu (Kuhl, Nancy) Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 13:21:00 +0000 Subject: [Yale-readings] 9-27 at 4pm -- Nicole Sealey, Poetry Reading at Beinecke Library Message-ID: Nicole Sealey, Poetry Reading Thursday, September 27, 4:00 PM Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 121 Wall Street Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series Contact: nancy.kuhl at yale.edu [https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/sites/default/files/Sealey-N.-Photo-by-Rachel-Eliza-Griffiths-1.jpg] >From nicolesealey.com: Born in St. Thomas, U.S.V.I. and raised in Apopka, Florida, Nicole Sealey is the author of Ordinary Beast, finalist for the 2018 PEN Open Book Award, and The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named, winner of the 2015 Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize. Her other honors include a Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant, an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant, the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from The American Poetry Review, a Daniel Varoujan Award and the Poetry International Prize, as well as fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, CantoMundo, Cave Canem, MacDowell Colony and the Poetry Project. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times and elsewhere. Nicole holds an MLA in Africana studies from the University of South Florida and an MFA in creative writing from New York University. She is the executive director at Cave Canem Foundation, visiting professor at Boston University and the 2018-2019 Doris Lippman Visiting Poet at The City College of New York. *** The Yale-Readings Listserv is sponsored by the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. 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Where Dante had a tripartite structure (Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso), O'Siadhail has a five-part structure, with each quintet devoted to a discipline. Each quintet is also marked by a different form: sonnets interspersed by haikus ("saikus"), iambic pentameter, terza rima, and two other invented forms. The Five Quintets captivates even as it instructs, exploring the ever-changing flow of ideas and the individuals whose contributions elicited change and reflected their times. The artists, economists, politicians, scientists, and philosophers O'Siadhail features lived complex lives, often full of contradictions. Others, though deeply rooted in their context, transcended their time and place and pointed beyond themselves-even to us and to a time after modernity's reign. MICHEAL O'SIADHAIL is an internationally acclaimed poet whose works include Collected Poems and One Crimson Thread. 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URL: From nancy.kuhl at yale.edu Wed Sep 26 12:20:33 2018 From: nancy.kuhl at yale.edu (Kuhl, Nancy) Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2018 16:20:33 +0000 Subject: [Yale-readings] THURSDAY 9-27 at 4pm -- Nicole Sealey, Poetry Reading at Beinecke Library Message-ID: Nicole Sealey, Poetry Reading Thursday, September 27, 4:00 PM Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 121 Wall Street Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series Contact: nancy.kuhl at yale.edu [https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/sites/default/files/Sealey-N.-Photo-by-Rachel-Eliza-Griffiths-1.jpg] >From nicolesealey.com: Born in St. Thomas, U.S.V.I. and raised in Apopka, Florida, Nicole Sealey is the author of Ordinary Beast, finalist for the 2018 PEN Open Book Award, and The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named, winner of the 2015 Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize. Her other honors include a Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant, an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant, the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from The American Poetry Review, a Daniel Varoujan Award and the Poetry International Prize, as well as fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, CantoMundo, Cave Canem, MacDowell Colony and the Poetry Project. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times and elsewhere. Nicole holds an MLA in Africana studies from the University of South Florida and an MFA in creative writing from New York University. She is the executive director at Cave Canem Foundation, visiting professor at Boston University and the 2018-2019 Doris Lippman Visiting Poet at The City College of New York. *** The Yale-Readings Listserv is sponsored by the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. 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Name: image003.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 5224 bytes Desc: image003.jpg URL: From nancy.kuhl at yale.edu Sat Sep 29 11:18:24 2018 From: nancy.kuhl at yale.edu (Kuhl, Nancy) Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2018 15:18:24 +0000 Subject: [Yale-readings] Poet Jay Wright October 1, 5:00 PM In-Reply-To: References: , Message-ID: Free and open to the Public: Jay Wright, Poetry Reading Monday, October 1, 5:00 PM Linsley-Chittenden Hall, room 317 63 Hight St New Haven, CT The John Christophe Schlesinger Visiting Writer Series of the Department of English Contact: richard.deming at yale.edu ++ Frequently described as a ?poet?s poet,? Jay Wright has quietly built an impressive career as one of America?s leading African-American voices. His work, praised for its evocative language, introspective tone, and mythological imagery, has won many honors, including the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, Guggenheim and MacArthur fellowships, and Yale?s prestigious Bollingen Prize. Wright?s plays, essays, and poetry generally focus on a rediscovery of African-American heritage through historical study and personal experience. His poetry, often autobiographical and allegorical in nature, has been compared to the work of T. S. Eliot, Walt Whitman, and Hart Crane, and shows influences as various as Dante, Nicholas Guillen, Alejo Carpenter, St. Augustine, and the West African griot tradition. A recurring theme in Wright?s poetry is the attempt to overcome a sense of exclusion, whether from society or one?s own cultural identity, and to find growth and unity through a connection between American society (the experience of the present) and African traditions (the heritage of the past). Weaving together various world mythologies and cultures, Wright?s poetry reflects the influence of his birthplace in the American Southwest, as well as the heritage of his African ancestry. His poems explore history from this multicultural standpoint and often take the form of allegorical journeys and spiritual quests. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Schlesinger_JayWright_Poster.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 22647 bytes Desc: Schlesinger_JayWright_Poster.pdf URL: