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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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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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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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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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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 …
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