Archive: March 2012 (2 Posts)

Refined by: (Author) Peter Armenti; (Year) 2012; (Month) March

Poetry Contests, the National Library of Poetry, and Amateur Poetry Anthologies

March 29, 2012

One of my jobs as a digital reference specialist is to answer questions submitted through the Poetry and Literature Center’s Ask a Librarian form. The questions I receive tend to cluster around two or three major categories, such as how to find literary criticism on a novel and how to locate the full text of …

Posted in: Ask a Librarian, Digital Resources

Phillis Wheatley

March 1, 2012

Posted by: Peter Armenti

To mark the beginning of Women’s History Month, which follows on the heels of African American History Month, From the Catbird Seat would like to recognize Phillis Wheatley’s major impact on both literary history and women’s history. In 1773, Wheatley became the first African American woman to publish a book. Wheatley’s book, a volume of …

Posted in: Collections, Digital Resources

Refined by: (Author) Peter Armenti; (Year) 2012; (Month) March