Apply for “Poetry & Practice” Micro-Credential with Public Humanities
Grad students from any program at Yale are invited to apply for the Spring 2026 Public Humanities micro-credential, POETRY & PRACTICE!
Please apply using this form by Friday, March 6, 2026. All students will be notified by Monday April 6, 2026.
Description:
The Public Humanities Certificate Program invites graduate students in any field or school to apply for a series of poetry workshops, “Poetry & Practice” to take place May 11-14, 2026, which will consider the practice of poetry through the examination of a particular provocation and set of practices in each workshop. Each workshop leader will begin their workshop with a poem of their own and talk through some of the practices that brought it into being. Exercises and discussion will follow. This micro-credential is limited to 8 graduate students. Only those who can attend all workshops should apply. Please write with any questions to karin.roffman@yale.edu. Apply at bit.ly/yalepoetryandpractice
Schedule:
Workshop 1: Mon May 11th: 11am to 1pm @ the Beinecke: “Something out of Nothing” led by Catherine Barnett
Workshop 2: Mon May 11th: 3pm to 5pm @ HQ 276: “Poetry & Attention” led by Michael Kelleher
Workshop 3: Tues May 12th: 10am to 12pm @ YUAG: “Poetry as Self-Portrait” led by Yona Harvey
Workshop 4: Tues May 12th: 200pm to 430pm @ YCBA: “Poetry in Public” led by Cyra Levenson
Workshop 5: Wed May 13th: 10am to 12pm @ YUAG: “‘Self-Portrait as So Much Potential: Re/Constructing the ‘I’ in Poetry” led by Yona Harvey
Workshop 6: Wed May 13th: 215pm to 415pm @ Beinecke: “Notes, Drafts, Revision: Poets & Archives” led by Nancy Kuhl
Workshop 7: Thurs May 14th: 230pm to 5pm @ HQ 276: “Radical Revision: Re-entry, Discovery, and Invention” led by Catherine Barnett
A group dinner follows the final workshop.
Public Humanities Oral History Micro-Credential with Mary Marshall Clark
Applications due Wednesday, November 12th, 2025 — open to Yale graduate students from any program or department
Description: Over four meetings, Mary Marshall Clark will lead a public humanities micro-credential on the uses of oral history in a multidisciplinary framework as a form of living research and testimony. She will lead the class in exploring multidisciplinary methods, including oral history interviewing, analysis and public forms of dissemination. Class members will conduct at least one interview, based on in-class fieldwork training and co-interviewing. The class will also cover the evaluation of interviews for public and academic use, and ethical protocols for interviewing people in vulnerable situations. Mutual listening, with embodiment in mind, will be a strong methodological focus.
Mary Marshall Clark is the Director of the Columbia University Center for Oral History Research. She is co-founding director of Columbia’s Master of Arts degree in Oral History. She has been involved with the oral history movement since 1991 and was president of the United States Oral History Association in 2001-2002.
All meetings will take place on Thursdays from 1:30 to 3:30pm. The dates of the Four In-Person Meetings are: December 11 (lunch provided); January 15; January 29; February 19. Only students who can attend all four meetings should apply. Limited to 8 graduate students.