Windham-Campbell Festival: Daily Wake Up with Ishion Hutchinson
Start your festival day with free coffee and treats, book and tote bag giveaways, and a short reading by poet Ishion Hutchinson.
All Ages
Windham-Campbell Festival: Staged Readings
An evening of staged readings of selected scenes from the work of the 2022 recipients in drama, Sharon Bridgforth and Winsome Pinnock.
Windham-Campbell Festival: The Playwright as Novelist
After receiving the Windham-Campbell Prize for drama, Kia Corthron published two novels; Abbie Spallen is currently working on her first book. Professor of English, Theater, and Performance Studies, and American Studies, Marc Robinson talks with both writers about leaving their comfort zone to tell stories in a different form.
Windham-Campbell Festival: This Mournable Body
Tsisti Dangarembga’s three novels have had an enormous impact on women’s writing in Africa and around the world. She’ll discuss all three works in a career-spanning conversation with Courtney J. Martin, the Paul Mellon director of the Yale Center for British Art.
The event will also be livestreamed on the Yale Center for British Art YouTube channel.
Windham-Campbell Festival: The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li
Yiyun Li received the Windham-Campbell Prize for fiction during the first year of the pandemic. She comes to campus for the first time since receiving the prize to launch her highly-anticipated new novel The Book of Goose and to discuss her work with critic Anthony Domestico. Free copies to the first forty guests! Signing to follow.
Windham-Campbell Festival: Daily Wake Up with Aleshea Harris
Start your festival day with free coffee and treats, book and tote bag giveaways, and a short reading by playwright Aleshea Harris.
Windham-Campbell Prize Ceremony and Lecture by Natasha Trethewey
Yale University President Peter Salovey presents the 2022 awards in drama, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, and former United States Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey delivers the annual Windham-Campbell Lecture “Why I Write.”
Trethewey will be introduced by Meghan O’Rourke, editor of The Yale Review.
The lecture will also be livestreamed on the Windham-Campbell YouTube channel
Curator's Talk: Senior Exhibit Project "We Are Everywhere: Lesbians in the Archive"
Please join us to celebrate the opening of “We are Everywhere: Lesbians in the Archive.” Curator Gabrielle Colangelo will provide a tour of this exciting exhibition and will be available for questions and conversation over light refreshments afterward. No registration is necessary.
Writing in an Age of Crisis: A Yale Review Poetry Reading
Writing in an Age of Crisis: A Yale Review Poetry Reading. Join us for a conversation and reading with TYR Editors Rachel Mannheimer and Roger Reeves, introduced by TYR Senior Editor Maggie Millner.
Fernando Pessoa Unmasked? Biographer Richard Zenith in Conversation with Inês Forjaz de Lacerda
HYBRID Event
Celebrated translator and biographer Richard Zenith has spent much of the past three decades translating and writing about the great Portuguese modernist poet Fernando Pessoa.
At Yale, Zenith will talk about what - through all these years - led to some of his recent revisions to his translations and reflect on translation more generally.
