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Archive: April 2018 (7 Posts)

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New Poetry Podcast Series Launches

Posted by: Anne Holmes

As April winds down, our celebration of National Poetry Month at the Library of Congress is still going strong: Today we launch From the Catbird Seat, a new poetry podcast series from the Poetry and Literature Center. Each Thursday for the next eight weeks, we’ll explore poetry’s past, present and future. Join us—Rob Casper, head …

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Tracy K. Smith Closes First Term as Poet Laureate

Posted by: Peter Armenti

UPDATE 1: The full text of Tracy K. Smith’s talk, “Staying Human: Poetry in the Age of Technology,” is now available through The Washington Post. UPDATE 2: The full video of Tracy K. Smith’s talk, “Staying Human: Poetry in the Age of Technology,” is now available on the Library’s website. It is embedded below:  …

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“The Poet Diaries”: A National Poetry Month Farewell

Posted by: Anne Holmes

The following is a guest post by the inaugural National Youth Poet Laureate, Amanda Gorman. This is the conclusion in a series of monthly blog posts that Amanda contributed during her 2017-2018 laureateship.  Can you believe that this is my last “Poet Diaries” post? That it is National Poetry Month already? That we are just around the …

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The Greco-Roman Muses of the Library of Congress

Posted by: Anne Holmes

The following is a post by Taru Spiegel, Reference Specialist, European Division. It originally appeared on the 4 Corners of the World: International Collections blog. National Poetry Month in the United States is surely presided over by the Muses, the Greco-Roman patron goddesses of poets. The Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress features …

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Behind the Scenes with Tracy K. Smith

Posted by: Anne Holmes

Tracy K. Smith is closing out a busy year in the catbird seat. During her first term as laureate, she visited rural communities in New Mexico, South Carolina, and Kentucky as part of a pilot project she plans to expand for next year; edited a new anthology, American Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time, which will …

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Poems of Spring Featured in Library’s Spring Fling Pop-Up Exhibit

Posted by: Peter Armenti

This Friday and Saturday, April 13-14, the Library will continue its celebration of spring and the National Cherry Blossom Festival through its Spring Fling Pop-Up Exhibit. Among the many items on display from the Library’s collections is a selection of books and broadsides (see image above) from the Library’s Rare Book and Special Collections Division …

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New Recordings Online for National Poetry Month

Posted by: Anne Holmes

National Poetry Month is here, and we’re over the moon to announce the release of 50 additional recordings from the Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature, now available to stream online. The archive—a collection dating back to 1943, when Allen Tate was Consultant in Poetry—contains nearly 2,000 audio recordings of celebrated poets and writers participating …