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Archive: November 2018 (2 Posts)

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In Defense of Close Reading with Robert Frost

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. Some of my favorite poems are those I shared with students year after year. These are poems I know as friends through making a personal …

Posted in: Guest Posts, Teacher's Corner

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The Bread, the Knife, and the Source of Billy Collins’s Poem “Litany”

Posted by: Peter Armenti

As the poetry specialist in the Library’s Researcher and Reference Services Division, I receive my fair share of questions about U.S. poets laureate. Most often, people ask about the history of the laureateship, or about the activities of a particular laureate during his or her term. Very rarely, though, do I receive questions about specific …

Posted in: Ask a Librarian, Poets Laureate