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Posted by: Peter Armenti
This "Teacher's Corner" post by Rebecca Newland explores ideas for using National Book Festival videos in the classroom as a way to introduce students to contemporary poets and authors.
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Posted by: Peter Armenti
The blog post delves into a Georgetown University Master's capstone project "Reimagining Structural Racism and Inequities during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Implications for Latino Communities in the U.S. as analyzed through Oral Histories and Children's Poetry."
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Posted by: Peter Armenti
David Sutton, producer of the Poetvision video series (1988-1990), discusses Stanley Kunitz's poem "The Portrait" and Kunitz's involvement in Poetvision programming.
Posted in: Guest Posts, Literary Treasures, Poets Laureate
Posted by: Peter Armenti
This "Teacher's Corner" blog posts explores ways that teachers can invite students to explore the natural world through poetry.
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Posted by: Peter Armenti
The following guest post, part of our “Teacher’s Corner” series, is by Rebecca Newland, a Fairfax County Public Schools Librarian and former Teacher in Residence at the Library of Congress. In 2015, in one of my earliest Teacher’s Corner posts, I wrote about short poetry activities to use at the beginning of class, also sometimes …
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Posted by: Peter Armenti
Former Library of Congress Teacher in Residence Rebecca Newland offers a lesson plan for teaching Amanda Gorman’s 2021 presidential inaugural poem “The Hill We Climb.”
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Posted by: Peter Armenti
A post about Amanda Gorman's inaugural poem, "The Hill We Climb," along with resources to learn more about inaugural poetry.
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Posted by: Peter Armenti
The Presidential Inaugural Committee for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris announced that National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman perform her poetry at the 59th Presidential Inaugural Swearing-In Ceremony, set to take place on Wednesday, January 20, on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol.
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