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Posted by: Brock Thompson
Walk out the front door of the Library’s Jefferson Building, take a left and then a short walk down Pennsylvania Avenue. About eight blocks down you’ll reach the Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital. The building is extraordinary, a noble looking brick structure with tall ceilings and oak paneling. Built at the end of …
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Posted by: Peter Armenti
The following guest post is by Andrew Weber, a legislative information systems manager at the Library of Congress. It is cross posted on the Law Library’s blog, In Custodia Legis. Earlier this week, I made a trip to the attic of the Thomas Jefferson Building to see the Poetry and Literature Center of the Library …
Posted in: Digital Resources, Guest Posts, Poets Laureate
Posted by: Peter Armenti
In Ancient Greece, the three poets best known for celebrating the Olympic Games were Simonides of Ceos, Bacchylides, and most famously Pindar, whose work I discussed in a July 2012 blog post on poetry and the Olympics. All three poets were known for a type of lyric ode known as epinicion (plural: epinicia), written in …
Posted in: Digital Resources
Posted by: Brock Thompson
“Know the songs of a country and you will know its history for the true feeling of a people speaks through what they sing.” – Preface to The Songs of Henry Clay Work (1884) Today is an exciting day at the Library of Congress! The long-awaited Song of America project officially debuts. The collection features …
Posted in: Digital Resources
Posted by: Robert Casper
The following in a guest post by Trevor Owens, special curator for the Library of Congress Science Literacy Initiative, as part of a series of Library-wide blogs about Carl Sagan — to read more visit “Finding our Place in the Cosmos with Carl Sagan.” Today the Library celebrates the launch of a new digital collection, …
Posted in: Collections, Digital Resources, Guest Posts
Posted by: Robert Casper
I am very lucky to be gainfully employed on behalf of literature. But as much as poems and stories are at the heart of my work time, mostly I’m focused on checking calendars and filling out forms and following up on e-mails. In fact, sometimes I need a reminder, or an excuse, to turn my …
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Posted by: Robert Casper
Hello and happy 2014 from the Poetry and Literature Center. If you’re free this evening, please tune into the PBS NewsHour—the program will include the third segment from Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey’s signature project, “Where Poetry Lives,” a series of on-locations reports the Laureate is participating in with Jeffrey Brown, the NewsHour’s Chief Correspondent for …
Posted in: Poets Laureate