Saturday, January 28th, 2023 from 2:00-4:00 Mr. Ramsey will be discussing the subject of his next work, and his writing process. Light refreshments will be served at this casual event. NO RSVP is required, and this event is free and open to all. Mr. Ramsey has become a familiar face to many at the Institute … Continue reading Join Writer Calvin Ramsey in our Biography Room
Local Luminary Hank Paper visits the Institute Library Saturday, May 6, 2023 from 4:00-6:00pm Paper's new book, My Search for Meaning, The Myron Stories is a collection of comic short stories. Whether fighting an interloping bear in his basement, leading his irascible grandmother on a hair-raising tour of Old Jerusalem, or dreaming of alien body snatchers who may or may … Continue reading Book Launch & Reading: My Search for Meaning, The Myron Stories by Hank Paper
Longtime New Haven journalist Randall Beach visits to talk about his recently published collection of profiles of New Haven area personalities, Connecticut Characters: Rascals and Renegades.
Robert Lisak and David Ottenstein, master photographers, discuss their book Capitol America: A Photographic Portrait of the 50 State Capitols.
Culture writer Chris Molanphy visits to discuss his latest book, Old Town Road, about the single (and cultural phenomenon) by Lil Nas X.
An Evening of Fashion & Fascism in conversation with the authors Gioia Diliberto, Becky Conekin & Debby Applegate
Caedmon Records LP recordings of famous poets reading their own work.
A little chance to relax and think and absorb noted works of poetry as read by its authors. This month, we continue our tour of Caedmon recordings from the 20th century, and visit the 1950s recordings of Pound, Eliot, and Sitwell: Masters of Irony, Collage, and Innovation? Or Complicated Fops and Poseurs?
Joan Kwon Glass's most recent collection, Daughter of Three Kingdoms, is the winner of the 2024 Perugia Press Poetry Prize. Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms explores themes familiar to those who know Kwon's work: it's described as part lamentation and part hymn—an illumination of diasporic hungers, hauntings, absence, and resilience. This collection "explores colonialism and “postcolonialism” through disordered eating, suicide loss, religious damage, familial estrangement, addiction, motherhood, and recovery.
Spend an evening listening to brilliant short fiction read aloud by actors from the New Haven Theater Company. After the reading the stories are broken down, discussed, illuminated, if you will, by Bennett Lovett-Graff.
Spinning Poetry is a program where we’re invited to hear poets as they read their own works, many of which are old familiar pieces, but many of which have fallen out of fashion or just gotten swallowed by time. By playing Caedmon Records’ recordings of these readings, we can gain a new appreciation for works we’ve gotten accustomed to just seeing, if we see them at all, on a printed page. Now: the voices come alive! Held monthly, with Philip Beard as your literary tour guide.
