May 2 2008 - Yale Series of Younger Poets - New Haven, CT

The five most recent winners of the prestigious Yale Series of Younger Poets competition will read from their work at the Whitney Humanities Center (WHC), 53 Wall Street, on May 2.

Free and open to the public, the event will take place 4 p.m. in WHC, Room 208.

Awarded since 1919, the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize celebrates the most prominent new American poets by bringing the work of previously unpublished artists to the attention of the larger public. Previous winners of the prize include such talents as Adrienne Rich, John Ashberry and Robert Hass. It is the longest-running poetry prize in the United States.

The event on May 2 will be introduced and moderated by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former U.S. poet laureate Louise Glück. She is the Rosenkranz Writer-in-Residence at Yale and is also the current judge for the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.

The featured poets for the event are Peter Streckfus, the 2003 award recipient; Richard Siken, 2004; Jay Hopler, 2005; Jessica Fisher, 2006; and Fady Joudah, the 2007 winner and most recent recipient of the prize. The poets will read from recent work.

The poetry reading is sponsored jointly by Yale University Press and the Whitney Humanities Center.