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Mondays at Beinecke: Yale and Civil Rights in the 1960s with alumni Joan Countryman and Bruce Payne

Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/3RKe7Jw

Joan Countryman M.U.S. ’66 and Bruce Payne ’65 M.A. were students at Yale in the early/mid 1960s and both were active in the national civil rights movement. In this Mondays at Beinecke a week after Martin Luther King Day, they will discuss campus life in those years, an era when Dr. King himself came to Yale to preach in Battell Chapel in 1961 and to receive an honorary degree in 1964. Each will also share about their involvement in the civil rights movement.

2024 Mark Strand Memorial Reading by Emily Wilson

A reading by Emily Wilson: Acclaimed classicist, author, translator, and Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, Emily Wilson became the first woman to publish an English translation of Homer’s Odyssey in 2018; her translation of the Iliad was released in September 2023. Wilson attended Oxford University (Balliol College B.A. in Classics and Corpus Christi College M.Phil. in Renaissance English Literature) and Yale University (Ph.D. in Classics and Comparative Literature).

2024 Yale College Poets

Yale College Poets: an annual reading by outstanding undergraduate poets. This year’s poets: William An, Kanyinsola Anifowoshe, Lukas Bacho, Olivia Bell, Daniel Blokh, Nicole Dirks, David Donnan, Forrest LaPrade, John Nguyen, Awuor Onguru, and Nimran Shergill. Co-sponsored by the Yale Collection of American Literature at the Beinecke Library and the Creative Writing Program of the Yale Department of English.

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Day Display at Beinecke Library

All are welcome to a special one-display of highlights of Beinecke Library collections related to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and to the African American freedom movement on view for the holiday in the courtyard level reading room. You will be able to see an array of materials, many drawn from the library’s James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of African American Arts and Letters, that highlight Dr. King’s life, legacy, and impact, and the long civil rights movement in the United States. The display will also include materials about Black New Haven history.

Windham-Campbell Prizes Festival

The 2024 Windham-Campbell Prize recipients will be in residence on Yale’s campus from September 17-20 for a multi-day international literary festival during which they will share their work, engage in conversation on a range of subjects, and celebrate reading and the written word with the New Haven community.

The full schedule of talks, discussions, and readings will be available at windhamcampbell.org in mid-August 2024.

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