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Archive: May 2018 (9 Posts)

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New Podcast Episode: Juan Felipe Herrera and the National Book Festival Youth Poetry Slam

Posted by: Anne Holmes

For your listening pleasure, the sixth episode of From the Catbird Seat—our new poetry podcast series—is up on our website and on iTunes. In this sixth installment, we revisit the 2015 Youth Poetry Slam at the National Book Festival. The Youth Poetry Slam event debuted at the Festival just a year earlier, in 2014, as …

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The Sonnet Challenge

Posted by: Peter Armenti

The following guest post, part of our “Teacher’s Corner” series, is by Rebecca Newland, a Fairfax County Public Schools Librarian and former Teacher in Residence at the Library of Congress. By this time of the year, you might have just a few school days left or have weeks until your students leave for the summer …

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Exploring the Archive: A Farewell from Intern Oona Intemann

Posted by: Anne Holmes

The following is a guest post by Oona Intemann, who completed a spring semester internship at the Library of Congress Poetry and Literature Center just this week. I registered for a reader identification card for the Library of Congress almost immediately upon arriving in D.C. for my freshman year of college. Though that should not have …

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Podcast Episode 4 Now Available: Natasha Trethewey and Rosanne Cash

Posted by: Anne Holmes

Today marks the half-way point for our poetry podcast series, From the Catbird Seat. Tune in now for Episode 4! In this newest installment of From the Catbird Seat, Rob Casper chats with former Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey about her 2013 event at the Library with singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash. At the time, Cash was completing a …

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Literary Treasures: Adrienne Rich reading her poems in the Coolidge Auditorium, April 7, 1981

Posted by: Anne Holmes

The following post is part of our monthly series, “Literary Treasures,” which highlights audio and video recordings drawn from the Library’s extensive online collections, including the Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature. By showcasing the works and thoughts of some of the greatest poets and writers from the past 75 years, the series advances the …

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New Podcast Episode: Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry

Posted by: Anne Holmes

It’s Thursday, which means we’re bringing you another episode of From the Catbird Seat, our new poetry podcast series! In this third episode, we check in with the three jurors of the 2016 Rebekah Bobbitt Johnson National Prize for Poetry: Mary Szybist, appointed by Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden; Danielle Legros Georges, appointed by Poet Laureate …

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Poetic Decisions

Posted by: Anne Holmes

The following is a guest post by Brandon Fitzgerald, project manager of a Law Library staffing contract, writer and student of poetry and literature. This post originally appeared on the In Custodia Legis: Law Librarians of Congress blog.  As we come out of National Poetry Month, I have been thinking about my earliest post on the relationship between law …