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Posted by: Erin Allen
The Library of Congress welcomed Charles Wright as the institution’s 20th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2014-2015. Several major news outlets ran stories. “Our next poet laureate may end up speaking on behalf of the more private duties of the poet — contemplation, wisdom, searching — rather than public ones,” said reporter Craig Morgan …
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Posted by: Jennifer Gavin
"Reading Is Not Optional." -- Walter Dean Myers
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Posted by: Erin Allen
Letters About Literature, a national reading and writing program that asks young people in grades 4 through 12 to write to an author (living or deceased) about how his or her book affected their lives, announced its 2014 winners last month. More than 50,000 young readers from across the country participated in this year’s initiative, …