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Posted by: Anne Holmes
The following is a post by Kathleen McGuigan of the Library of Congress. It originally appeared on the Teaching with the Library of Congress blog. Have you ever considered using a literary map with your students? In the May/June 2018 issue of Social Education, the journal of the National Council for the Social Studies, our “Sources …
Posted in: Digital Resources, Guest Posts
Posted by: Anne Holmes
It’s been an exciting spring and summer for digital initiatives at the Poetry and Literature Center. Over the past few months, we’ve released streaming audio of 50 newly digitized recordings from the Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature, and we’ve aired the first full season of the PLC’s inaugural podcast series. Today, we kick off …
Posted in: Digital Resources, News and Events
Posted by: Anne Holmes
It’s been eight weeks since we launched our inaugural poetry podcast series, From the Catbird Seat, with U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith as our first guest. Today, we air the eighth and final episode of the season, which you can listen to on our website or on iTunes. We decided to end this first …
Posted in: Digital Resources, Interviews, News and Events, Poets Laureate
Posted by: Anne Holmes
The following is a post by Talía Guzmán-González, reference librarian and Luso-Brazilian Specialist, Hispanic Division. It originally appeared on the 4 Corners of the World: International Collections blog. Portuguese literature is currently experiencing one of its most exciting moments in recent history. This is not a statement one can make lightly, as this is the …
Posted in: Collections, Digital Resources, Guest Posts
Posted by: Anne Holmes
Today, we air the seventh episode of our new poetry podcast series, From the Catbird Seat, which is available on our website and on iTunes. Tune in as Rob Casper goes behind the scenes with Matthew Zapruder, editor at large of Wave Books and the former director of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series, about the …
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Posted by: Anne Holmes
Attention, poetry publishers: The Library of Congress is now accepting nominations for the 2018 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry! The $10,000 prize, first awarded to James Merrill in 1990 for The Inner Room, is given biennially to an American poet for the most distinguished book of poetry published during the previous two years—2016 and …
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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 …
Posted in: Digital Resources, Interviews, News and Events, Poets Laureate
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 …
Posted in: Guest Posts
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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