AS PART OF The Yale Review's INITIATIVE TO MAKE thoughtful criticism and innovative literature accessible to a wide audience, we host timely readings and conversations with writers at Yale University and beyond. Each spring, The Yale Review Festival brings preeminent writers, critics, and editors together in New Haven for a week of talks, readings, and workshops. The Yale Review also hosts lunchtime talks throughout the academic year with writers and industry professionals, as well as readings and events in New York City. We hope you’ll join us at our next event! Subscribe to our newsletter to stay updated about upcoming events.
Events
Upcoming Events
Richie Hofmann
Writing poems of myth, memory, and desire
Wednesday, February 18, 2026
320 York Street, Humanities Quadrangle
Join The Yale Review for a day of events with poet Richie Hofmann, author of A Hundred Lovers and The Bronze Arms, and the novelist and critic Garth Greenwell, author of Cleanness and Small Rain.
Generative Poetry Workshop
12:00 p.m., HQ 131
Richie Hofmann will host a generative poetry workshop open to the Yale community, with preference given to students. In this workshop you will read and discuss poems of love and longing from Sappho to the present. Inspired by their forms and feelings, you’ll work on your own new drafts. No previous experience or preparation required. Please bring your own writing materials. RSVP is strongly encouraged. Register here .
Tea and Q&A
4:00 p.m., HQ L90
Join Richie Hofmann for a casual tea and informal Q&A session. This is an opportunity for students to come with their questions about poetry, publishing, and the writing life. Light refreshments will be provided.
Reading and Writing Love Poems with Richie Hofmann and Garth Greenwell
5 p.m., HQ L02
Join Richie Hofmann and Garth Greenwell for a reading and conversation about poems of love and desire. Richie and Garth will read their work, as well as a favorite love poem, and participate in a discussion with Meghan O'Rourke, executive editor of The Yale Review, followed by an audience Q&A. Introduced by Maggie Millner, senior editor at The Yale Review.
Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Yale English Department and Creative Writing Program.
The Yale Review at AWP 2026
Thursday, March 4–Saturday, March 6
10 a.m.–6 p.m.
Booth 430
Baltimore Convention Center
1 W Pratt St, Baltimore, MD
Visit The Yale Review at AWP 2026! Shop issues, merch, and special subscription offers.
Book Signing with Jonathan Gleason
Saturday, March 6
10 a.m.–6 p.m.
Booth 430
Join us for a book signing with Jonathan Gleason, author of Field Guide to Falling Ill, the inaugural winner of the Yale Nonfiction Book Prize, published by Yale University Press.