News and Events

November 11, 2014
Poets Laureate: Mark Strand and Charles Wright, Tuesday, November 11.   Mark Strand reads at 4pm at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and Charles Wright reads at...
October 28, 2014
Tuesday, October, 28, 5 pm Location: LC 317 Sponsored by Schlesinger Visiting Writers Series hosted by the Department of English Contact: (203) 432-2233   Twice nominated...
October 15, 2014
Louise Gluck’s Faithful and Virtuous Night is a finalist for the 2014 National Book Award for Poetry. The winners will be announced November 19th.   A full list of...
September 30, 2014
Tuesday, September 30 at 5:00, LC 317 Poet and critic Dan Chiasson is the author of three books of poetry: The Afterlife of Objects (2002), Natural History (2005), and Where’...
September 26, 2014
Connecticut Student Poetry Award Students interested in submitting for the Connecticut Student Poetry Award should hand in two copies of 5 pages of poetry (which might be one...
Faithful and Virtuous Night
September 22, 2014
 Louise Glück’s newest collection, Faithful and Virtuous Night, has been long listed for the 2014 National Book Award. http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2014.html#.VCAYq-...
Sarah Maslin wins Norman Mailer Award
September 20, 2014
The results of the Norman Mailer Norman Mailer High School and College Writing Awards are out and once again Yale students dominate. The FOUR –YEAR COLLEGE CREATIVE NON-...