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Posted by: Anne Holmes
Meet our three summer Junior Fellows—Mal Haselberger, Ethan McFerren, and Jake Newman—and learn about the literary programs they've helped develop over the past 10 weeks.
Posted in: Digital Resources, Interviews, National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, Poets Laureate
Posted by: Robert Casper
Tonight at 7 PM EST we're excited to air the last event in our National Book Festival Presents series "Hear You, Hear Me," which features the newest of our Library literary ambassadors: Colson Whitehead, our 2020 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction winner.
Posted in: Interviews, News and Events
Posted by: Robert Casper
Tonight the Library of Congress presents the second virtual program in its series “Hear You, Hear Me,” featuring Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden with Joy Harjo and Tracy K. Smith—the two U.S. Poets Laureate she has appointed.
Posted in: News and Events, Poets Laureate
Posted by: Anne Holmes
Megan Jenkins, a 2019-2020 academic year intern at the Poetry and Literature Center, reflects on her time at the Library of Congress.
Posted in: Collections, Digital Resources, Guest Posts, Poets Laureate
Posted by: Anne Holmes
Looking forward to the 2020 National Book Festival? In the meantime, you can watch past festival presentations by exploring our full National Book Festival video collection—which includes this video of Natasha Trethewey and Jenny Xie discussing “the poetry of place” and their new books, “Monument: Poems New and Selected” (Trethewey) and “Eye Level” (Xie), on the Poetry & Prose stage at the 2019 Festival.
Posted in: Collections, Digital Resources, Poets Laureate
Posted by: Anne Holmes
This “Literary Treasures” post, written by intern Megan Jenkins, examines an audio recording from the Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature featuring Lucille Clifton reading her poems at the Library of Congress on December 2, 1999.
Posted in: Collections, Digital Resources, Guest Posts, Literary Treasures
Posted by: Anne Holmes
In commemoration of Juneteenth, Manuscript Division curator Barbara Bair explores Ralph Ellison's unfinished second novel. First published posthumously in 1999 as "Juneteenth," and a decade later (in 2010) as "Three Days Before the Shooting...," Ellison's novel takes a deep dive into the complexities of race and violence and prices of transformation in America.
Posted in: Collections, Digital Resources, Guest Posts, News and Events
Posted by: Robert Casper
A word out to all poetry publishers: the Library of Congress is now accepting submissions for the 2020 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize in Poetry.
Posted in: News and Events
Posted by: Robert Casper
Tonight we will air a new National Book Festival Presents program, “Ha Jin on the Legendary Li Bai,” at 7 PM EST on the Library’s Facebook page and YouTube site.
Posted in: Digital Resources, News and Events