American Literature

This reading from the Mabel Dodge Luhan Papers presents a selection of letters that reflect the highly personal, expressive, and exploratory nature of the correspondence between Luhan and her psychoanalyst A. A. Brill.

Dolores Hayden will read from her new collection of poetry.

A podcast series featuring staff of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University reading culturally and historically significant letters and manuscripts from its wide-ranging literary collections.

James Welch, an American of Blackfeet and Gros Ventre heritage, was a novelist, poet, and teacher. He was born on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Browning, Montana and died in 2003. His papers are held at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, at Yale University. "Living Distance: The Life and Papers of James Welch," an audio essay prepared by Eric Ward and read by Presca Ahn, explores the writer’s life, his legacy, and his archive.

A new podcast series featuring staff of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University reading culturally and historically significant letters and manuscripts from its wide-ranging literary collections.

A new podcast series featuring staff of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University reading culturally and historically significant letters and manuscripts from its wide-ranging literary collections.

A poetry reading by Jennifer Moxley as part of the Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series held at the Beinecke Library on April 23, 2009. The poet is introduced by Nancy Kuhl, Curator of the Yale Collection of American Literature.

A new podcast series featuring staff of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University reading culturally and historically significant letters and manuscripts from its wide-ranging literary collections.

This is poet Evie Shockley, reading from her work as part of the event,“Young African American Poets: A Celebration of New Writing” and co-sponsored by the “Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series” and “New Ideas in African American Studies,” on October 28, 2008. The poet is introduced by Nancy Kuhl, Curator of the Yale Collection of American Literature.

Poet Elizabeth Robinson reads from her work as part of the “Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series” held at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library on November 15, 2007.

This is poet Douglas Kearney, reading from his work as part of the event,“Young African American Poets: A Celebration of New Writing” and co-sponsored by the “Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series” and “New Ideas in African American Studies,” on October 28, 2008.

This is poet Amaud Jamaul Johnson, reading from his work as part of the event,“Young African American Poets: A Celebration of New Writing” and co-sponsored by the “Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series” and “New Ideas in African American Studies,” on October 28, 2008.

Jonathan Holloway, Yale Professor of History, African American Studies, and American Studies recounts visiting the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library in his first month of graduate school and the transformative experience that grew out of his surprise encounter with Richard Wright's landmark text, Native Son.

Poet Charles Bernstein reading from his work in the Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library on October 16, 2007.