Past Years

2025

    1. Food Truck Welcome

      College Street Tent

    1. Windham-Campbell Prizes Ceremony and Keynote by Kwame Dawes

      Yale Center for British Art Auditorium

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

      College Street Tent

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

      College Street Tent

    3. After Nations: A Conversation with Rana Dasgupta

      College Street Tent

    4. Sounding the Text: Patricia J. Williams and Kendall Thomas in Performance - CANCELED

      College Street Tent

    5. Janelle Monáe’s Afrofuturism

      Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library Mezzanine (Audubon Side)

    6. Freedom Futures Block Party

      Possible Futures Bookstore

    7. The Art of Fiction

      Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library Mezzanine (Audubon Side)

    8. Staged Readings of Works by Roy Williams and Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini

      Yale Center for British Art, Auditorium

    9. Screening: The Friend with Q&A

      Humanities Quadrangle L02

    1. For the Birds: A Walk with Anne Enright

      Registration is closed.

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

      College Street Tent

    3. Joseph Brodsky in the Archive

      Beinecke Library, Room 37-38

    4. The Art of Playwriting

      College Street Tent

    5. Critical Race Theory Now

      College Street Tent

    6. Soundscapes and Places

      College Street Tent

    7. 2 Tone Records Rock London

      Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library Mezzanine (Audubon Side)

    8. Screening: We Have Just Begun with Live Narration and Soundtrack

      Humanities Quadrangle L02

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

      Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library Mezzanine (Audubon Side)

    10. Prize Recipients Reading

      Yale Center for British Art

2024

    1. Welcome Party

      College Street Tent

    1. Prize Ceremony and Keynote Lecture by Lydia Davis

      Yale University Art Gallery, Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Lecture Hall

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

      College Street Tent

    2. Zong! 15th Anniversary Reading and Celebration

      College Street Tent

    3. Siblings in Art and Life

      Yale University Art Gallery, 3rd Floor

    4. Art of Fiction: Kathryn Scanlan and Elliott Holt

      College Street Tent

    5. Write with Me: Community Writing Session

      College Street Tent

    6. In Praise of Black Performance

      Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Mezzanine

    7. The Poet's Memoir

      Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Mezzanine

    8. Staged Readings

      Yale University Art Gallery, Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Lecture Hall

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

      College Street Tent

    2. Ordinary Notes

      College Street Tent

    3. Close Looking: Charles Sheeler's American Interior

      Yale University Art Gallery, 3rd Floor

    4. Art of Fiction: Deirdre Madden and Anthony Domestico

      College Street Tent

    5. Writing for Stage and Screen

      Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Mezzanine

    6. Write with Me: Community Writing Session

      College Street Tent

    7. On Basketball and Ascension

      Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Mezzanine

    8. (Sub)Aquatic Conversation

      Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Mezzanine

    9. Prize Recipient Readings

      Yale University Art Gallery, Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Lecture Hall (enter at 201 York Street)

2023

    1. Welcome Party with DJ Shay, Yootây Singers, and Food Trucks

      College Street Tent

    1. Prize Ceremony and Windham-Campbell Lecture by Greil Marcus

      Yale University Art Gallery, Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Lecture Hall

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

      College Street Tent

    2. Black Feminist Writing

      College Street Tent

    3. On Becoming a Reader/Writer

      College Street Tent

    4. White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa: A Conversation with Susan Williams

      College Street Tent

    5. Close Listening: Schoenberg, Opus 19

      Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Mezzanine

    6. Creative Reading: The Conversation

      Humanities Quadrangle L02 (lower level), Lecture Hall

    7. Film Screening: Percival Everett: Through the Writer’s Mirror

      Humanities Quadrangle L02 (lower level), Lecture Hall

    8. The Golden Record Playlist

      Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Mezzanine

    9. Staged Readings

      Yale University Art Gallery, Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Lecture Hall

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

      College Street Tent

    2. Irish Civil Rights in Song

      Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Room 38-39

    3. Native Concerns: A Conversation with dg nanouk okpik

      College Street Tent

    4. Bliss Montage: A Conversation with Ling Ma

      College Street Tent

    5. Close Listening: J Dilla

      Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Mezzanine

    6. Film Screening: A United Kingdom

      Humanities Quadrangle L01 (lower level), Alice Cinema

    7. Red Summer: Percival Everett’s American Landscapes

      Yale University Art Gallery, Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Lecture Hall

    8. You Print Yourself on My Heart: Audre Lorde in the Archive

      Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Mezzanine

    9. Prize Recipient Readings

      Yale University Art Gallery, Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Lecture Hall (enter at 201 York Street)

2022

    1. Prize Ceremony and Lecture by Natasha Trethewey

      Yale University Art Gallery, Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Lecture Hall

    1. Daily Wake Up with Aleshea Harris

      College Street Tent

    2. Book Launch: The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li

      Asian American Cultural Center

    3. Outside the Comfort Zone, or the Playwright as Novelist

      College Street Tent

    4. This Mournable Body

      Yale Center for British Art, Lecture Hall

    5. Book Launch: England's Green by Zaffar Kunial

      Henry R. Luce Hall, Room 202

    6. Ask Your Mama: Sharon Bridgforth on Langston Hughes

      Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Room 38-29

    7. Theater as Ritual

      College Street Tent

    8. Choral Performance: Intimate Strangers

      Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Mezzanine

    9. Staged Readings: Works by Drama Prize Recipients

      Yale University Art Gallery, Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Lecture Hall

    1. Daily Wake Up with Ishion Hutchinson

      College Street Tent

    2. Children of Migrations

      Yale Center for British Art, Lecture Hall

    3. The Hauntologies of Slavery

      College Street Tent

    4. Zimbabwe in Fiction

      Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Room 38-39

    5. Close Looking: Richard Wright's African Photographs

      Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Room 38-39

    6. Oracles and Blessings: The Artist in Turbulent Times

      Stetson Branch, New Haven Free Public Library

    7. Music, Movies, & Dancing: One (More) Night in the Roof Nightclub

      The Gryphon

    1. Daily Wake Up with Jonah Mixon-Webster

      LOCATION CHANGE: BEINECKE RARE BOOK AND MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY

    2. Sources of Poetry

      Yale Center for British Art, Lecture Hall

    3. Who is the Critic?

      LOCATION CHANGE: BEINECKE RARE BOOK AND MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY

    4. Fiction and Its Discontents

      LOCATION CHANGE: BEINECKE RARE BOOK AND MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY

    5. Screening: In My Father’s Village

      Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Room 38-39

    6. Close Listening: Skokiaan by Louis Armstrong

      Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Room 38-39

    7. Close Looking: Turner Turned Inside Out

      Yale Center for British Art, Lecture Hall

    8. Tender Photo: African Photography in Real Time

      Yale University Art Gallery, Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Lecture Hall

    9. Prize Recipient Readings

      Yale University Art Gallery, Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Lecture Hall

2019

    1. Prize Ceremony and Lecture by Eileen Myles

      Yale University Art Gallery (enter at 56 High Street or 201 York Street)

    1. Legal Fictions: On the Intersection of Law and Literature

      Whitney Humanities Center

    2. On Becoming a Reader

      New Haven Free Public Library (enter lower level on Temple Street)

    3. Close Looking: Ishion Hutchinson on William Blake

      Yale Center for British Art

    4. Poets of the World! The Story of the African Poetry Book Fund

      St. Anthony Hall

    5. Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West

      Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

    6. Farthest Field: A Roundtable Discussion

      Henry R. Luce Hall

    7. On Becoming a Writer

      Afro-American Cultural Center

    8. Staged Readings

      Yale University Art Gallery (enter at 56 High Street or 201 York Street)

    9. Dance Party with DJ Ishion Hutchinson

      Afro-American Cultural Center

    1. Endeavors: What is a Black Play?

      Department of African American Studies

    2. Approaching Police Violence: A Writers’ Conversation

      New Haven Free Public Library (enter lower level on Temple Street)

    3. Close Looking: Danielle McLaughlin on Memorial for Henry G. Staats

      Yale University Art Gallery

    4. I Saw Your Face: A Conversation on Tom Feelings

      Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (lower level)

    5. Writing After the Crash of the Celtic Tiger

      Whitney Humanities Center

    6. Remapping America with Rebecca Solnit

      St. Anthony Hall

    7. Who’s Afraid to Write about Class? A Playwrights’ Conversation

      Yale Cabaret

    8. Close Listening: Bob Marley’s Survival

      Afro-American Cultural Center

    9. Prize Recipient Readings

      Yale University Art Gallery

2018

    1. Prize Ceremony and Lecture by Elizabeth Alexander

      Sprague Hall

    1. At the Existentialist Café

      The Graduate and Professional School Club at Yale (GPSCY)

    2. Epic Transformations

      New Haven Free Public Library

    3. Close Looking: Olivia Laing on David Wojnarowicz

      Yale University Art Gallery

    4. Pope's Montaigne: A Conversation with Sarah Bakewell

      Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Room 38

    5. Art of Playwriting

      Yale Cabaret

    6. The Scandal of Translation

      Whitney Humanities Center, Room 108

    7. Anticipating an Audience for African Writing

      Whitney Humanities Center, Room 208

    8. On Becoming a Writer

      Afro-American Cultural Center

    9. Prize Recipient Readings

      Yale University Art Gallery, Auditorium

    1. Endeavors: Delusions of Whiteness in the Avant-Garde

      Department of African American Studies, Room 101

    2. Memories, Secrets, and Lies: Writing on Family

      New Haven Free Public Library

    3. Close Looking: Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi on William Etty

      Yale Center for British Art

    4. An Imagined Encounter: Langston Hughes and Xavier Villaurrutia

      Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Rm 38

    5. Close Looking: Lorna Goodison on Jacob Lawrence

      Yale University Art Gallery, Print Room

    6. Portraying Artists

      Whitney Humanities Center, Room 208

    7. Writing Songs with Suzan-Lori Parks

      Afro-American Cultural Center

    8. Staged Readings: Works by Drama Prize Recipients

      Yale University Art Gallery, Auditorium