News and Events

April 8, 2016
Friday, April 8 at 4:30pm in LC 319   As part of the American Literature in the World Graduate Conference’s schedule of events, Stephen Burt, hailed by the New...
April 7, 2016
Thursday, April 7, 4pm in the Davenport College Master’s House, 271 Park Street.   “The Destroyer In The Glass” is the 110th recipient of the Yale Series of Younger Poets...
April 7, 2016
A reading | April 7 | LC 101 | 5:00   Jin Xuefei is a contemporary Chinese-American poet and novelist using the pen name Ha Jin.   Although born and raised in early communist...
April 5, 2016
Please join us to celebrate the publication of Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City with a talk by author and Windham Campbell Prize winner Adina Hoffman...
March 9, 2016
Wednesday, March 9, 11:45AM-1:15PM Whitney Humanities Center, 208   Rachel Zucker is the author of nine books, most recently, a memoir, MOTHERs, and a double collection of...
March 2, 2016
Wednesday, March 2, at 5:00pm in LC 211   Reginald Dwayne Betts transformed himself from a sixteen-year old kid sentenced to nine years in prison to a critically acclaimed...
February 25, 2016
Min Jin Lee was born in Seoul and immigrated to New York in 1976 when she was seven years old. She grew up in Elmhurst, New York and is a graduate of the Bronx High School...