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Posted by: Anne Holmes
Intern Maura Byrne has been creating new Poet Laureate resource guides—many of which are now live for the start of the 2020-2021 school year.
Posted in: Digital Resources, Guest Posts, Poets Laureate
Posted by: Robert Casper
Today is the start of the 20th annual National Book Festival—and the first to be completely virtual. We hope you take the opportunity to check out the great crop of poets, fiction writers, and memoirists featured this year, in our on-demand programming, live Q&As, and on the PBS special Sunday night.
Posted in: News and Events, Poets Laureate
Posted by: Anne Holmes
Poetry & Prose. The name is appropriately alliterative for this long-running stage at the Library of Congress National Book Festival that features some of our most literary writers.
Posted in: News and Events, Poets Laureate
Posted by: Peter Armenti
Former Teacher in Residence Rebecca Newland explores ways to adapt some of her previous ideas for introducing poetry into the classroom for a virtual learning environment.
Posted in: Guest Posts, Teacher's Corner
Posted by: Anne Holmes
Jason Reynolds, the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, writes about the Library's upcoming 20th annual National Book Festival (all virtual!) in his September newsletter.
Posted in: National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, News and Events
Posted by: Anne Holmes
The “Yu zhi bi shu shan zhuang shi” 御製避暑山莊詩 [Imperial Poems on the Summer Resort] is a compilation of Chinese poems by the Qing Emperor Kangxi (1654-1722) with illustrations of 36 scenic spots of the hills and rivers at the Chengde Mountain Resort.
Posted in: Collections, Digital Resources