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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."