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Posted by: Anne Holmes
The following is a guest post by 2016 National Student Poet Alum Joey Reisberg. It originally appeared on the National Book Festival blog. The 2017 class of National Student Poets will be appointed this Thursday, August 31, at the Library of Congress, and will perform at the National Book Festival on the LOC Town Square Stage …
Posted in: Guest Posts, News and Events
Posted by: Anne Holmes
The following guest post was written by 2012 National Student Poet, Luisa Banchoff, with the below introduction by Virginia McEnerney, Executive Director for the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers. The Class of 2017 National Student Poets will be appointed on Thursday, August 31, at the Library of Congress. Inaugural Class of 2012 National Student …
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Posted by: Peter Armenti
Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series, adapted and released as a feature film earlier this month, is the latest in a long line of fantasy fiction to receive the big screen treatment. While, like many works in its genre, The Dark Tower was partly influenced by J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings series, the work …
Posted in: Collections, Digital Resources
Posted by: Anne Holmes
The following is a post by Amalia Castaneda, 2017 Library of Congress Junior Fellow, Hispanic Division. It originally appeared on the 4 Corners of the World blog. This summer, as a Junior Fellow in the Hispanic Division at the Library of Congress, I worked on the Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape under the direction …
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Posted by: Peter Armenti
When the United States entered World War II in 1941, it opposed nations that had banned and burned books. In 1943, the Council on Books in Wartime, working with the War Department, began distributing pocket-size paperback volumes to soldiers in every theater of war. By 1947, approximately 123 million copies of some 1,300 titles in …
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Posted by: Anne Holmes
The following piece was written by John Sayers, a public affairs specialist in the Library’s Office of Communications. It originally appeared in the Library of Congress Magazine’s Summer Reading Issue. When The New Yorker magazine published in June of 1948 an allegorical tale of small-town American life with a horrific twist, neither the publication nor …
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Posted by: Anne Holmes
This post draws on an essay about Baldwin’s life and achievements by Alan Gevinson of the Library’s National Audio-Visual Conservation Center. It was originally posted on the Library of Congress blog. James Baldwin was born 93 years ago today, on August 2, 1924, in New York City. His many novels include his first, “Go Tell …
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Posted by: Anne Holmes
This Saturday, July 29th, the Library of Congress will host the concluding day of the first-ever national Asian American Literature Festival. In anticipation of the Festival, we asked poet and Poetry Society of America President Kimiko Hahn—who will deliver an intimate lecture and read from her work on Saturday—a few questions. The last time you …
Posted in: Interviews, News and Events
Posted by: Anne Holmes
Last week, the Poetry and Literature Center staff was fortunate enough to meet and chat with Amanda Gorman, the first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate appointed this past April. Since she was already in D.C. for a speaking engagement, we leapt at the opportunity to get to know Amanda, show her around the Library, and learn …
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