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Posted by: Sasha Dowdy
It's the first holiday season for "Bookmarked" blog! We did and tried a lot of fun things. Check out the year's highlights from our team, which includes U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón and National Ambassador for Young People's Literature Meg Medina.
Posted in: Ada Limón, Books, Children and Teens
Posted by: Robert Casper
More laureate news: Ada Limón writes a poem for the front matter of the Fifth National Climate Assessment and is featured reading and discussing the poem on The Weather Channel.
Posted in: Ada Limón, Announcements & Operations, U.S. Poet Laureate
Posted by: Sasha Dowdy
DId you ever wonder what our interns are up to? Click to hear from Library of Congress literary programming intern, Agnes Redvil, and read her account of the fall 2023 semester with us.
Posted in: Books, Intern Blogs, National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, National Book Festival
Posted by: Sasha Dowdy
It's been 150 years since Willa Cather was born, but conversations about her novels such as "My Ántonia" and "One of Ours" and her unconventional life continue and thrive in 2023. Read on about her life, her work and a statue dedicated to her memory.
Posted in: Books
Posted by: Robert Casper
NASA’s “Message in a Bottle” campaign, featuring a poem by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón, has reached 1.6 million signatures. Help us get to 2 million signatures by the end of the year.
Posted in: Ada Limón, Announcements & Operations, U.S. Poet Laureate
Posted by: Sasha Dowdy
Native American Heritage Month: both a great time for the vast histories of Native nations, and also the time to celebrate the contemporary lives, arts and cultures of Indigenous people in the 21st century. Check out these 6 authors and their recorded talks from past National Book Festivals.
Posted in: Books
Posted by: Sasha Dowdy
Check out the new collection of personal papers from Wyandot poet and folklorist Bertrand N. O. Walker (Hen-Toh), now available at the Library's Manuscript Division reading room. Click for a preview of his drafts, typed-up poems and other writings.
Posted in: Literary History, Native American Heritage Month, Poetry, Uncategorized
Posted by: Clay Smith
Check out our preview Q&A with historian Simon Schama ahead of his "Live! at the Library" event—a conversation with Dr. Atul Gawande about Schama's book "Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations"—this Thursday night.
Posted in: Announcements & Operations, Books, Live! at the Library
Posted by: Robert Casper
Check out the just-released video from the National Gallery of Art, featuring our Poet Laureate reading her poem inspired by Andy Goldsworthy's sculpture "Roof."
Posted in: Ada Limón, U.S. Poet Laureate