Poets Laureate at Yale University, Tuesday November 11 // Free and Open to the Public

 

Mark Strand

a reading by the former Poet Laureate of the United States

4 pm | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 121 Wall Street

Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series

Information: Beinecke.library.yale.edu/programs-events/events/mark-strand-poetry-reading

 

Mark Strand’s books of poems include Collected Poems, published in 2014, and Blizzard of One, which won the Pulitzer Prize. His honors include the Bollingen Prize for American Poetry , and a fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation.

 

Charles Wright

a reading by the current Poet Laureate of the United States

5:30 pm | Yale University Art Gallery Auditorium, 201 York Street

Yale Literature and Spirituality Series

Presented by Yale Institute of Sacred Music

in collaboration with Yale Divinity Student Book Supply

Information: ism.yale.edu/poet-laureate

 

Charles Wright’s latest book is Caribou (2014). In 2013 Bye-and-Bye: Selected Late Poems was awarded the Bollingen Prize for American Poetry. He has received the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.