Elevada by Sheila Callaghan
Yale Repertory Theatre presents the world premiere of Callaghan’s latest play from April 24-May 16, a romantic comedy about fears of aloneness.
Publications and Productions
Deep Lane by Mark Doty
“We are animals too, says Doty, but we inscribe our choices in language—such as the choice to greet the day, or to look backward on friends and lovers and previous poems.” (Publishers Weekly)
The Deadlands by Benjamin Percy
“With its fluid integration of reflections on American values and freedoms into a near-future scenario…this novel is a reminder that the best speculative fiction speaks to the concerns and issues of its time.” (Publishers Weekly)
How to Be Drawn by Terrance Hayes
“The poems pull from sources as seemingly disparate as Ol’ Dirty Bastard and Vladimir Mayakovsky, and evoke the souls of Walt Whitman and Ralph Ellison. The work hurdles between violent beauty…and stark, philosophical truth telling.” (Publishers Weekly)
Ordinary Light by Tracy K. Smith
"Shot through with exquisite lyricism, wry humor, and an acute awareness of the beauty of everyday life, Ordinary Light is a gorgeous kaleidoscope of self and family, one that skillfully combines a child’s and teenager’s perceptions with adult retrospection." (Knopf)
From The New World: Poems 1976-2014 by Jorie Graham
“Truths held dear one moment, her poems imply, become lies in the next. Like the fluttering world, her work resists being caught on anyone’s hook. She is drafty and oracular at the same time.” (The New York Times)
In Manchuria by Michael Meyer
“Meyer’s entertaining mix of memoir, travelogue, and sociology yields a rich, insightful view of China in transition.” (Publisher’s Weekly)
See How Small by Scott Blackwood
“As promised by its title, See How Small treats its subject matter atomically, in chapters so brief they often feel more like stanzas in a narrative poem than chapters in a novel…The effect is something like dust motes swirling around a central mystery, coalescing just long enough to form a picture of something bigger before whirling apart again.” (Chicago Tribune)