2025 Festival

ALL EVENTS FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Tuesday, September 16

5 PM

Food Truck Welcome Party

College Street Tent
470 College Street

Wednesday, September 17

5 PM

Windham-Campbell Prizes Ceremony and Keynote by Kwame Dawes

Yale Center for British Art Auditorium
1080 Chapel Street

Thursday, September 18

10:30 AM

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

College Street Tent
470 College Street

12 PM

Poetry, Faith, and Silence: A Conversation with Anthony V. Capildeo

College Street Tent
470 College Street

1:30 PM

After Nations: A Conversation with Rana Dasgupta

College Street Tent
470 College Street

3 PM

Sounding the Text: Patricia Williams and Kendall Thomas in Performance

College Street Tent
470 College Street

4 PM

Janelle Monáe’s Afrofuturism

Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library Mezzanine (Audubon Side)
121 Wall Street

5 PM

Freedom Futures Block Party

Possible Futures Bookstore
318 Edgewood Avenue

5:30 PM

The Art of Fiction

Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library Mezzanine (Audubon Side)
121 Wall Street

6:30 PM

Staged Readings of Works by Roy Williams and Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini

Yale Center for British Art, Auditorium
1080 Chapel Street

7 PM

Screening: The Friend

Humanities Quadrangle L02
320 York Street

Friday, September 19

10 AM

For the Birds: A Walk with Anne Enright

Starting at the Class of 1954 Environmental Science Center adjacent to the Peabody Museum: Registration Required (Limited Capacity)
21 Sachem Street

10:30 AM

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

College Street Tent
470 College Street

12 PM

The Art of Playwriting

College Street Tent
470 College Street

12 PM

Joseph Brodsky in the Archive

Beinecke Library, Room 37-38
121 Wall Street

1:30 PM

Critical Race Theory Now

College Street Tent
470 College Street

3 PM

Soundscapes and Places

College Street Tent
470 College Street

4 PM

2 Tone Records Rock London

Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library Mezzanine (Audubon Side)
121 Wall Street

4 PM

Screening: We Have Just Begun with Live Narration and Soundtrack

Humanities Quadrangle L02
320 York Street

5:30 PM

The Global Countryside: Podcasting the Most Important Story of the 21st Century

Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library Mezzanine (Audubon Side)
121 Wall Street

7 PM

Prize Recipients Reading

Yale Center for British Art
1080 Chapel Street