The Young Readers Center is excited to invite you to see the annual Puppet Show on the day after Thanksgiving on November 29, 2019. This year we are sharing Native American Folktales, with stories and poems from nations such as Cree, Seneca, Winnebago, and Navajo adapted from books by Abenaki authors and storytellers—the father-son duo Joseph and James Bruchac.
This essay, "Peace and War in American Poetry," was written in 2012 by David Lehman as part of the Poetry and Literature Center's online "Poetry of American History" series that ran from 2012-2014.
On October 24, 2019, the Library of Congress welcomed the fifth author in its yearlong National Book Festival Presents series, the inimitable fiction writer Alexander McCall Smith. As part of the programming surrounding Mr. McCall Smith's visit, staff from four Library divisions were asked to develop a display of items related to Mr. McCall Smith and his works.
Rebecca Newland, former Teacher in Residence at the Library of Congress, participated in a week-long National Endowment for the Humanities Landmarks of American History and Culture workshop titled "The Concord Landscapes and Legacy of Henry Thoreau" in July. In this post, she develops two ideas about how to explore the philosophies and work of Thoreau in your classroom or library.
On Wednesday, November 6, in honor of Veterans Day and the 20th anniversary of the Veterans History Project, the Veterans History Project, the American Folklife Center, and the Poetry and Literature Center will host a discussion on occupational poetry. In anticipation, we've asked three of the event's participating poets to share a poem, answer a few questions about their work, and respond to another occupational poet's poem.
