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Archive: November 2015 (5 Posts)

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5 Under 35 and What it Means to Be an Emerging Writer

Posted by: Robert Casper

The following is a guest post by Benjamin Samuel, program manager of the National Book Foundation—presenting partners at tomorrow’s “5 Under 35” panel and reading at the Library’s Montpelier Room. At the National Book Foundation, we often say our 5 Under 35 Honorees are young emerging writers who are poised to make a lasting impression …

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Rediscovering the Warrior-Poet: Finding Audre Lorde at the Library of Congress

Posted by: Peter Armenti

The following is a guest post by Megan Metcalf, a reference librarian in the Library’s Humanities & Social Sciences Division. One weekday afternoon, I found myself sitting across the table from the self-proclaimed Black, lesbian, feminist, and warrior-poet Audre Lorde. To be clear, I wasn’t actually in the same room with Audre Lorde, who passed …

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Nohemi—A Song for Paris

Posted by: Robert Casper

The following is a guest blog by Juan Felipe Herrera, the 21st Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress. Sometimes all we have is the little song in our heart—the one responsible for lighting the way in times of trouble. The size of the trouble does not matter because the size of …

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Documenting California Sounds and Communities

Posted by: Peter Armenti

The following post was written by Cathy Kerst from the Library’s American Folklife Center (AFC), and originally appeared on the AFC’s Folklife Today blog. Documenting California Sounds and Communities: The Story of Migration and Settlement from the New Deal Era to the Present The Library’s newly-appointed Poet Laureate, Juan Felipe Herrera, spent the afternoon of …

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Hooray for La Familia!

Posted by: Robert Casper

Today marks a milestone for the Poetry and Literature Center: we posted the first segment of the epic poem “La Familia” on our website! This poem is part of Juan Felipe Herrera’s Poet Laureate project, “La Casa de Colores”—this is how he describes it: La Familia (The Family) is an opportunity for you to contribute …