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Eight international writers receive the 2025 Windham Campbell Prizes

March 25, 2025
The Windham-Campbell Prizes Festival, held on campus from Sept. 16 to Sept. 19, will celebrate the eight 2025 recipients and their prizewinning work.
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Senior Exhibit Fellow Anne Gross ’25 explores the psychological effects of media in new exhibition

March 24, 2025
The student-curated exhibition “SENSATION! Reported Bodies in 19th-Century American Media” opens April 28 in Hanke Gallery in Sterling Memorial Library. The exhibition draws on Beinecke Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, and Haas Arts Library collections.

Online events and video illuminate Islamic manuscripts collection and exhibition

March 10, 2025
Each of the three co-curators of “Taught by the Pen: The World of Islamic Manuscripts,” a new exhibition at Beinecke Library, will present an online talk this spring. The events are free and open to all with advance registration.

Yale Library awards 2 prizes honoring the highest achievement in American poetry

February 11, 2025
Yale Library awards literary prizes—including the newly established Patricia Cannon Willis Prize—to poets Arthur Sze and Major Jackson.
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A rare, potent object from special collections offers students a glimpse into ancient practices

January 22, 2025
Yale faculty member features an ancient tablet from the library’s special collections in her classical antiquity classes.
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Faculty are invited to teach with special collections: Proposals due Feb. 4

January 17, 2025
Faculty proposals for collections-intensive courses—six or more class sessions in Beinecke Library’s classrooms—are due Feb. 4.
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Yale Library announces new literary prize for American poetry

December 17, 2024
The new $25,000 Willis Prize will recognize an outstanding volume of poetry published in the prior two years.
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