Sharon Bridgforth talks with Beinecke curator Melissa Barton about their mutual love of Langston Hughes, sharing reactions to selections from Hughes’s papers at Beinecke.

In Connecticut, nearly 40,000 people carry the Sickle Cell Trait. Join the Yale African American Affinity Group (YAAA) by running, walking, or biking to support Michelle’s House and Sickle Cell Disease Association of America. YAAA will cover registration for the first 8 people that send us an email at aaag@yale.edu.

After receiving the Windham-Campbell Prize for drama, Kia Corthron published two novels; Abbie Spallen is currently working on her first book. Professor of English, Theater, and Performance Studies, and American Studies, Marc Robinson talks with both writers about leaving their comfort zone to tell stories in a different form.

Tsisti Dangarembga’s three novels have had an enormous impact on women’s writing in Africa and around the world. She’ll discuss all three works in a career-spanning conversation with Courtney J. Martin, the Paul Mellon director of the Yale Center for British Art.
The event will also be livestreamed on the Yale Center for British Art YouTube channel.

Amneris Chaparro, Rice Fellow at the MacMillan Center, will present this talk as part of the CLAIS Colloquium Series 22-23.