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Posted by: Anne Holmes
Last month, high schools around the nation settled in to start the second half of the academic year. We’re a little late to the celebration, but we hope you’ll still share our excitement: To mark this milestone, former Poet Laureate Billy Collins has added 10 new poems to Poetry 180! Launched in 2002 as Collins’ laureateship project, …
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Posted by: Anne Holmes
We hope you’ve enjoyed exploring the origins of Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith’s “American Conversations” project with us on the From the Catbird Seat podcast these past few weeks. Today’s announcement is bittersweet: The third and final episode of our “Making ‘American Conversations’” series is now online. You can listen and subscribe via our podcast page, iTunes, …
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Posted by: Anne Holmes
The following is a guest post by Katie Stueckle, who just completed a month-long internship at the Library of Congress Poetry and Literature Center over the Hollins University January Term. I started off the way most Library of Congress interns probably do, with a love for reading and literature from a young age. I was raised …
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