Poetry

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black and white photo affixed to yellowing scrapbook page shows older woman seated in a white chair outdoors with a younger woman perched next to her and a teenaged boy standing behind them .Photo  has scalloped white border and is affixed with black adhesive corners. Penciled in cursive next to the image is:  "Sept. 1949 just before Warren left for Exeter."
November 7, 2025
The archive offers previously inaccessible resources and new insights into the life and work of a beloved American poet. The materials will be available for use at Beinecke Library in early December.
Man with gray hair and wire-rimmed glasses wearing a salmon shirt under a dark suit jacket stands in front of marble columns and ornately painted ceiling.
September 15, 2025
Arthur Sze has been named the 25th U.S. Poet Laureate for 2025-26 by the Library of Congress. In February he was the 54th recipient of Yale’s Bollingen Prize for American Poetry. His papers are at the Beinecke Library.
Pink and white graphic that reads in black "16-19 September Windham Campbell Prizes Festival 2025"
September 2, 2025
The annual fall literary festival runs Sept. 16–19 with free readings, panel discussions, and conversations with eight award winners.
February 11, 2025
Yale Library awards literary prizes—including the newly established Patricia Cannon Willis Prize—to poets Arthur Sze and Major Jackson.
Interior view of Beinecke Library showing central glassed in bookstacks and outside walls of translucent marble panels
December 17, 2024
The new $25,000 Willis Prize will recognize an outstanding volume of poetry published in the prior two years.