Category: Press Releases

A collection of personal correspondence and memorabilia of renowned novelist Harper Lee, author of “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “Go Set a Watchman,” has been acquired by Emory University’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library. The letters, written between 1956 and 1961, are from Lee to New York architect and close personal Read More …

The Emory community is mourning the loss of Raymond Danowski, a generous benefactor of the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, who contributed a vast collection of 20th-century poetry and related materials that has become a world-renowned resource for research and scholarship. Danowski, 74, died at his home in South Africa on Feb. 2 Read More …

by Maureen McGavin The Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library has acquired the papers of poet Richard Blanco, who became widely recognized after reading his poem, “One Today,” at the second inauguration of former President Barack Obama in 2013.  The collection includes first editions of published books, commissioned and occasional poems (such Read More …

Recent acquisitions and lectures by distinguished scholars have added more depth and visibility to the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, which holds one of the strongest Irish literary collections outside of Ireland. Building on the strengths of the Seamus Heaney collection, the Rose Library has acquired the papers of poet Dennis O’Driscoll Read More …

Emory University will celebrate the contributions of Mari Evans, an influential Black Arts Movement writer and activist, with poetry readings and a panel on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018 in the Jones Room at the Robert W. Woodruff Library on the Emory campus. A reception will begin at 6:30 p.m. From 7-8:30 p.m., there will be a short Read More …

Tracy K. Smith, the current U.S. poet laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, will give a reading of her poems on Saturday, Feb. 17, at 4 p.m. at Emory University’s Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. The event is open to the public at no charge. Tickets are not required, but seating will be limited. Books Read More …

The late Irish poet Seamus Heaney will be the focus of “The Publishing Life of Seamus Heaney,” a lecture by scholar Rand Brandes, on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018 at 5 p.m. at the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University. Brandes will discuss the publishing legacy of the Nobel Prize-winning poet, who Read More …

Update on Jan. 17, 2018: This event is postponed, due to inclement weather causing Emory University to close on Jan. 17 and Jan. 18. We hope to announce a rescheduled date in the near future. Poet Kevin Young will give a free reading at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 18, 2018, in the Jones Room Read More …

Wondering what to do with textbooks as the semester draws to a close? Consider donating them to help other students. Emory’s First-generation Low Income Partnership (FLIP) developed the FLIP Lending Library in 2016. The collection depends on textbooks donated by other students who have finished classes at the end of the current semester. This semester, Read More …

Daylight is shortening, and a cold wind is carrying the last traces of sunny warmth away. Emory’s trees are shedding their green coats, donning the brilliant scarlet and gold of a Georgia fall. Students, on the other hand, are bracing themselves for something far more chilling – Emory’s final exam season. Thankfully, there is help Read More …

Daniel Mulhall, Ireland’s ambassador to the United States, will give a lecture titled ” ‘To Sweeten Ireland’s Wrong’: W.B. Yeats in the 1890s” on Monday, Nov. 6, 2017, at 7:30 p.m. in the Jones Room at Emory University’s Woodruff Library. The event is open to the public at no charge. Mulhall is an avid scholar Read More …