Young and Modern
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
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Langston Hughes, with his mother
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Wallace Thurman
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Find related materials in the Beinecke Collections: Finding Aid Database (archival collections), Orbis (printed materials), Digital Library (images).
Beinecke Podcasts
The Beinecke Library produces podcasts of brief talks and interviews about collections and exhibitions, as well as recordings of some public events at the Library. A complete list of available podcasts is online here: Beinecke Library Blogs and Podcasts.
Selected Podcasts
Exhibitions and Collections
MP3 — Exhibition Podcast, Metaphor Taking Shape: Poetry, Art, and the Book
MP3 — Drawn to Enchant, an interview with Tim Young, associate curator, Modern Books and Manuscripts, about Drawn to Enchant: Original Children’s Book Art in the Betsy Beinecke Shirley Collection.
MP3 — Exhibition podcast, Documenting Slavery: Exhibition Highlights
Exhibition podcast, “Rudyard Kipling: The Books I Leave Behind,” a talk by David Alan Richards (a description of the exhibition is available online: Rudyard Kipling: The Books I Leave Behind); available from Yale University on iTunes U
Events
MP3 — Poet Charles Bernstein reading from his work in the Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series on October 16, 2007
MP3 — Canadian poet Christian Bok reading from his in November 2007
MP3 — Poet Graham Foust reading from his work in the Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series in November 2007
MP3 — Poet Elizabeth Robinson reading from her work in the Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series in November 2007
MP3 — Poet Frank Bidart reading from his work in the Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series in November 2007
MP3 — Poet Donald Hall reading from his work in the Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series in February 2008
Some Beinecke podcasts are also available from Yale University on iTunes U
Images: Photo of Kathleen Hurst, Eric Knight, and Iris Houston, from the Eric Knight Papers; photo of Yehuda Amichai, Lea Goldberg, Yosef Bar Yosef and others from the Yehuda Amichai Papers.
About this Site
Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities features new acquisitions, unique documents, and visual and textual curiosities from the collections of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. This ongoing exhibition is curated by Tim Young, Curator of the Modern Books and Manuscripts Collection, and Nancy Kuhl, Curator of Poetry for the Yale Collection of American Literature.
Additional information about these and other materials in the Beinecke Library’s collections can be found at the Library’s website: http://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/. Recently acquired materials in the Beinecke Library’s collections can be discovered in the library’s Uncataloged Acquisitions Database: http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/acqwww/.
Materials featured on Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities may be protected by copyright restrictions; permission to publish should be sought from the owners of the rights, typically the creator or the heirs to his or her estate. Two websites may be very helpful to researchers who are tracing copyright holders:
WATCH File: The WATCH File (Writers, Artists, and Their Copyright Holders) is a database containing primarily the names and addresses of copyright holders or contact persons for authors and artists whose archives are housed, in whole or in part, in libraries and archives in North America and the United Kingdom. WATCH is a joint project of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin and the University of Reading Library, Reading, England.
U.S. Copyright Office: Includes all the information you need to know to comply with copyright law. A searchable database of records can help you determine if a work is protected by copyright.
Conversation with the Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities curators recently appeared in the Yale Bulletin and Calendar ; the Yale Daily News; and on Connecticut Public Radio’s Where We Live.
Images: [Photograph of a man and a woman leaning on a balustrade] ; [photograph of a man and a woman in Room 26, or, "Clap your hands, say Yeah!"] (by Yale University photographer Michael Marsland).
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