From nancy.kuhl at yale.edu Tue Sep 9 12:42:28 2025 From: nancy.kuhl at yale.edu (Kuhl, Nancy) Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2025 16:42:28 +0000 Subject: [Yale-readings] Peter Cole -- Reading and Conversation, Oct 22, 5:00 p.m. Message-ID: "Bialik on the Slaughter: Then and Now," with Peter Cole, Eliyahu Stern, and Robyn Creswell A reading and conversation to mark the publication of Peter Cole's new translation of Hayim Nahman Bialik's poetry, out in October from New York Review Books. Wed Oct 22, 2025 5:00 p.m.-6:30 p.m. More information: "Bialik on the Slaughter: Then and Now," with Peter Cole, Eliyahu Stern, and Robyn Creswell | Jewish Studies Few poets in the history of Hebrew have possessed the power and prescience of Hayim Nahman Bialik. Born in 1873 in a small Ukrainian village, he spent his most productive years in Odessa and in his fifties made his way to British Mandatory Palestine. He died in Vienna in 1934. Translated and introduced by MacArthur-winning poet Peter Cole, On the Slaughter presents Bialik for the first time in English as a major artist, someone far more politically and psychologically unsettling than his reputation as the national poet of the Jewish people might suggest. This compact collection offers readers a panoramic view of Bialik's inner and outer landscapes-from his visionary "poems of wrath" that respond in startling fashion to the devastations of pogroms and revolutionary unrest to quietly sublime lyrics of longing and withering self-assessment. "No voice comes closer than Bialik's to capturing the agonizing interplay between Jewish hunger for redemption and the inadequacy of its devotees," writes Steven Zipperstein, author of Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History. "Peter Cole-a major poet himself-has mastered the consummate master of contemporary Hebrew letters, rendering him into English, after so many others have tried, with unrivaled clarity, erudition, and multilingual precision. Here is Bialik taking his rightful place in the larger poetic world." Eliyahu Stern is Professor of Modern Jewish Intellectual and Cultural History and Chair of the Program in Jewish Studies. He is the author of The Genius: Elijah of Vilna and the Making of Modern Judaism (Winner of the 2012 Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publication, and finalist for the 2014 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature) and Jewish Materialism: The Intellectual Revolution of the 1870s. Robyn Creswell is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature. The author of City of Beginnings: Poetic Modernism in Beirut and translator of several volumes including Iman Mersal's The Threshold (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022), which won the National Translation Award in Poetry. He is currently at work on The Ruins: Arabic Poetry in an Age of Extremes. *** 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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 80061 bytes Desc: image001.jpg URL: From nancy.kuhl at yale.edu Wed Sep 17 09:33:36 2025 From: nancy.kuhl at yale.edu (Kuhl, Nancy) Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2025 13:33:36 +0000 Subject: [Yale-readings] SAVE THE DATE: Natasha Trethewey at Beinecke, November 4 Message-ID: 2025 Mark Strand Memorial Reading by Natasha Trethewey [cid:image001.jpg at 01DC27B6.21B678D0] Event time: Tuesday, November 4, 2025 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm Location: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (BRBL) See map 121 Wall Street, New Haven, CT 06511 Event description: A reading by poet Natasha Trethewey. Natasha Trethewey served two terms as the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States (2012-2014). She is the author of five collections of poetry, Monument (2018), which was longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award; Thrall (2012); Native Guard (2006), for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, Bellocq's Ophelia (2002); and Domestic Work (2000), which was selected by Rita Dove as the winner of the inaugural Cave Canem Poetry Prize for the best first book by an African American poet and won both the 2001 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Book Prize and the 2001 Lillian Smith Award for Poetry. In addition to her poetry, Trethewey is the author of two memoirs The House of Being (2024) and Memorial Drive (2020). Her book of nonfiction, Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, appeared in 2010. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Beinecke Library at Yale, and the Bunting Fellowship Program of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. At Northwestern University she is a Board of Trustees Professor of English in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. In 2012 she was named Poet Laureate of the State of Mississippi and in 2013 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. More information about the Mark Strand Memorial Reading: https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/article/mark-strand-memorial-reading. Contact: Beinecke Library; 203-432-2977; beinecke.library 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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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[Yale University Library] September 17, 2025 [https://image.message.yale.edu/lib/fe3815707564057f721177/m/1/73ce5345-4256-4285-843e-05473447a75e.jpg] [https://image.message.yale.edu/lib/fe3815707564057f721177/m/1/c14dc0b4-c6e8-420a-bf62-b8742e5a1400.jpg] WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 4 PM STERLING MEMORIAL LIBRARY LECTURE HALL "Spent: A Comic Novel" Alison Bechdel-award-winning cartoonist, graphic memoirist, and professor in the Practice, English, and Film and Media Studies-will speak about her new graphic novel "Spent," a satirical work of autofiction. In this hilariously skewering and gloriously cast new comic novel confection, a cartoonist named Alison Bechdel, running a pygmy goat sanctuary in Vermont, is existentially irked by a climate-challenged world and a citizenry on the brink of civil war. She wonders: Can she pull humanity out of its death spiral by writing a scathingly self-critical memoir about her own greed and privilege? 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