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Literary Event
RANDALL BEACH, Local Chronicler of the Hyperlocal, on Connecticut Characters
The Institute LIbrary 847 Chapel Street, New Haven, CTLongtime 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.
DAVID OTTENSTEIN and ROBERT LISAK, Connecticut Photographers, discuss their recently published book, CAPITOL AMERICA: A Photographic Portrait of the 50 State Capitols
The Institute LIbrary 847 Chapel Street, New Haven, CTRobert Lisak and David Ottenstein, master photographers, discuss their book Capitol America: A Photographic Portrait of the 50 State Capitols.
CHRIS MOLANPHY, Music and Culture Critic, Visits to Discuss New Book about Lil Nas X’s OLD TOWN ROAD
The Institute LIbrary 847 Chapel Street, New Haven, CTCulture 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
The Institute LIbrary 847 Chapel Street, New Haven, CTAn Evening of Fashion & Fascism in conversation with the authors Gioia Diliberto, Becky Conekin & Debby Applegate
Spinning Poetry: Quality Recordings of Quality Work.
The Institute LIbrary 847 Chapel Street, New Haven, CTCaedmon Records LP recordings of famous poets reading their own work.
Spinning Poetry
The Institute LIbrary 847 Chapel Street, New Haven, CTA 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?
Poet Joan Kwon Glass reading from her new collection of poetry, Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms (Perugia Press, 2024)
The Institute LIbrary 847 Chapel Street, New Haven, CTJoan 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.
Listen Here!
The Institute LIbrary 847 Chapel Street, New Haven, CTSpend 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: The Spoken Word
The Institute LIbrary 847 Chapel Street, New Haven, CTSpinning 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.