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Archive: April 2017 (8 Posts)

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Celebrating “The Life of a Poet” Online

Posted by: Robert Casper

National Poetry Month is a big deal here at the Poetry and Literature Center. While we always feature poetry programs in April (including our Bobbitt Prize reading and Poet Laureate Final Event, this week and next respectively), this year I’m happy to report we also have new online content. We’ve added to our wonderful “Poetry …

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Chronicling National Poetry Month, vol. III: Spotlight on the Poetry of America series

Posted by: Anne Holmes

Listen: Mary Jo Bang reads and discusses Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl, Part III.”   The following is a guest post by Anastasia Nikolis, a graduate student intern in the Poetry and Literature Center and a PhD candidate in the English department at the University of Rochester. This week’s National Poetry Month feature spotlights the Poetry of …

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Chronicling National Poetry Month, vol. II: Bobbitt Prize Winners Claudia Rankine and Nathaniel Mackey

Posted by: Anne Holmes

The following is a guest post by Anastasia Nikolis, a graduate student intern in the Poetry and Literature Center and a PhD candidate in the English department at the University of Rochester. This week’s National Poetry Month post features the two 2016 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry winners: Claudia Rankine for her 2014 …

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Reading Whitman

Posted by: Peter Armenti

The following guest post was written by Barbara Bair, historian in the Library’s Manuscript Division. In this month celebrating the work of poets, we can honor Walt Whitman—the poet of democracy and nature, of sexuality and modernity, of globalism, nationalism, and mysticism—as both the people’s poet and the poet’s poet. The Library of Congress’s recent …

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Celebrate National Poetry Month: 50 New Online Recordings from the Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature

Posted by: Anne Holmes

The following is a guest post written by Anastasia Nikolis, a graduate student intern in the Poetry and Literature Center and a PhD candidate in the English department at the University of Rochester. Happy National Poetry Month! I hope you are all as excited to celebrate as we are here at the Poetry and Literature …