Celebrate the 25th National Book Festival with us! Each week, "Bookmarked" features videos of acclaimed authors from past festivals, as we lead up to the 2025 Festival on September 6th. This week, we remember 2004, with featured videos from Natasha Tretheway and David Shannon.
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.
Meg Medina, the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, shares her favorite moments connecting with the voices captured by the Library's PALABRA archive, a collection of Hispanic and Latino poets and writers reading from their works.
In honor of a display and talk tomorrow at the Library about the diversity of the Library's collections through textiles, a blog on how an ancient Persian poetic form made its way to Urdu--and to beautiful illuminated manuscripts in the Library's Asian Division.
Read a letter from a National Youth Poet Laureate! The United States Poet Laureate position is the sole laureateship administered by the Library of Congress. The National Youth Poet Laureate is sponsored by Urban Word. The Library supports the creativite and inspirational poets laureate programs that have been inspired by the original position of the U.S. Poet Laureate
To celebrate Walt Whitman's birthday and to get ready for a barefoot, revitalizing summer, we share his love for nature's sounds and music, and a legacy of inspiration. Singer-songwriter Natalie Merchant is among many who were inspired by his work - take a peek at her visit to the Library and the Harned-Whitman Papers in the Manuscript Division.
