The following guest post is by Barbara Bair, historian in the Library’s Manuscript Division. This is the first in a series of blog posts exploring the life and work of Walt Whitman. The Library of Congress will celebrate the 200th anniversary of Whitman’s birth with events and exhibits in May and June (to be announced). …
With National Poetry Month in full swing, we hope you’ll join us in D.C. and around the country to toast the power of poetry during this “cruellest month.” Tonight, April 4, at 6:30 p.m., we kick off our Poetry Month events here at the Library of Congress with the National Youth Poet Laureate Commencement, where …
Happy National Poetry Month to you and yours! Here at the Library of Congress, we’re kicking off our celebration with the addition of 50 newly digitized recordings to the online Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature. This collection, which dates back to 1943, contains nearly 2,000 audio recordings of poets and writers participating in literary …