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.