From nancy.kuhl at yale.edu Mon Nov 2 16:50:46 2020 From: nancy.kuhl at yale.edu (Kuhl, Nancy) Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2020 21:50:46 +0000 Subject: [Yale-readings] Readings on the Beinecke Library YouTube Channel: Message-ID: New Video of Readings from the Beinecke Library Collections Online Now! Expecting to be waiting in line any time soon? Stressed and looking for prompts from the past for reflection in the present about paths for the future? This Monday at Beinecke, we have cast a series of timely and timeless readings from the collections on the library's YouTube channel. You can watch the full playlist, or individual selections, now or at any time. Please share with family, friends, and colleagues! Readers include Claire Barnes, David Blight, Anna Franz, Kahlil Greene, Ruth Koizim, Nancy Kuhl, Willie Jennings, and Asha Rangappa. Selections include poems by Langston Hughes; passages from the Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, and George Washington's Farewell Address; and excerpts from James Baldwin, Rachel Carson, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Alexis de Tocqueville, and Robert Penn Warren. *** The Yale-Readings Listserv is sponsored by the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. To post announcements about poetry and fiction readings, send the full text of the announcement, including contact information, to nancy.kuhl at yale.edu. Messages sent directly to the Yale-Readings list may not be posted. For more information about Poetry at the Beinecke Library, visit: Poetry at Beinecke Library: https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/blogs/poetry-beinecke-library -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nancy.kuhl at yale.edu Tue Nov 10 08:09:30 2020 From: nancy.kuhl at yale.edu (Kuhl, Nancy) Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2020 13:09:30 +0000 Subject: [Yale-readings] Nov 17: Reading with Asiya Wadud & Brandon Shimoda In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: [Twitter?? Asiya Wadud & Brandon Shimoda.png] A reading with Asiya Wadud & Brandon Shimoda Tuesday, November 17, 6pm EST Zoom registration link: https://bit.ly/2HBPYVS Please join us with a reading by poets Asiya Wadud and Brandon Shimoda, whose writings offer ethical attentiveness toward the lives, afterlives, memories, landscapes, and dreamworlds of the ancestral, diasporic, and migrant. Asiya Wadud is the author of Crosslight for Youngbird, day pulls down the sky/ a filament in gold leaf (written collaboratively with Okwui Okpokwasili), Syncope and the forthcoming No Knowledge Is Complete Until It Passes Through My Body. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she teaches poetry at Saint Ann?s School. Brandon Shimoda is the author of several books of poetry and prose, most recently The Grave on the Wall (City Lights), which received the PEN Open Book Award. He's currently (maybe always) writing a book on the afterlife of Japanese American incarceration. He lives in the desert (Tucson, AZ). Presented as part of the course ER&M 363: Ethnic Studies and the Social Imagination, with support from the Ethnicity, Race, and Migration Program at Yale University. For questions, please contact maryam.parhizkar at yale.edu. *** The Yale-Readings Listserv is sponsored by the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. To post announcements about poetry and fiction readings, send the full text of the announcement, including contact information, to nancy.kuhl at yale.edu. Messages sent directly to the Yale-Readings list may not be posted. 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