Morning Wake Up with The Yale Review: Coffee, Treats, Giveaways, and Words!

• Thursday, September 18
• 10:30 AM
• College Street Tent
• 470 College Street
• MAP
• FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Start your day energized! Join us for complimentary coffee and treats from 10:00-10:30 AM, setting the stage for an engaging and informal conversation with 2025 Windham-Campbell Prize recipients Rana Dasgupta, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Anne Enright, and Sigrid Nunez. This event is hosted by Meghan O’Rourke, editor of The Yale Review, offering a unique opportunity to connect directly with some of today’s most compelling literary voices in a relaxed setting.

Meghan O’Rourke is an award-winning poet, bestselling nonfiction writer, and acclaimed editor. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness, a finalist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction, and the bestselling memoir The Long Goodbye—both widely translated. Her poetry collections include Sun in Days (named a New York Times Top 10 Poetry Book of 2017), Once, and Halflife, a finalist for the Forward First Book Prize. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, the inaugural May Sarton Poetry Prize,a Front Page Award for Cultural Criticism, and two Pushcart Prizes, O’Rourke has written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The New York Times. Formerly an editor at The New Yorker and The Paris Review, she is the Executive Editor of The Yale Review and a professor of creative writing at Yale University.

Weather Alert: In the case of a weather disruption, this event will be moved to the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Mezzanine (121 Wall Street, New Haven, CT). Please check our social media channels for real-time updates.