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Posted by: Anne Holmes
Join us for an engaging and generative teacher-focused conversation on “Living Nations, Living Words,” U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo’s signature project. Leading the discussion will be specialists from the Library of Congress and members of the National Council of Teachers of English and the National Council for the Social Studies.
Posted in: Collections, News and Events, Poets Laureate
Posted by: Anne Holmes
On Thursday, March 18, at 7 p.m. ET, David Michaelis discusses his new biography of Eleanor Roosevelt ("Eleanor") with Colleen Shogan, senior vice president and director of the David M. Rubenstein Center at the White House Historical Association, and Library of Congress Manuscript Division staff. This is the first event in a new series called Made at the Library, which focuses on books that have been substantially written using the Library of Congress’ extraordinary collections.
Posted in: Collections, Digital Resources, Guest Posts, News and Events
Posted by: Anne Holmes
In honor of Women's History Month, Manuscript Division curator Barbara Bair explores the life and work of American artist Georgia O'Keeffe.
Posted in: Collections, Digital Resources, Guest Posts
Posted by: Anne Holmes
Today the Library launches Read Around the States, a program in which U.S. members of Congress pick a book for young people that is connected to their states—either through the book’s setting or author, or perhaps simply because it is a favorite of the member.
Posted in: Digital Resources, Guest Posts, News and Events
Posted by: Anne Holmes
Jason Reynolds, the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, is back with the March edition of his monthly Grab the Mic newsletter.
Posted in: Guest Posts, National Ambassador for Young People's Literature
Posted by: Anne Holmes
On March 12, the Library of Congress and We Need Diverse Books present “Listening, Learning, Creating Communities,” a virtual symposium on diversity in children’s literature, followed by the ceremony for the Walter Dean Myers Awards for Outstanding Children’s Literature.
Posted in: Guest Posts, National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, News and Events
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 …
Posted in: Guest Posts, Teacher's Corner
Posted by: Anne Holmes
This interview with Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon was conducted in 2014 by Matt Blakley as part of the Poetry and Literature Center’s online Interview Series. The series featured emerging and established literary writers in dynamic and thought-provoking conversation. Though the series is no longer active, From the Catbird Seat is reprinting these interviews to bring them new light.
Posted in: Interviews
Posted by: Anne Holmes
Join us for a stimulating conversation with former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove and educator Melissa Alter Smith. Dove will discuss her own approach to writing, share and discuss specific poems, and allow ample time for Q&A.
Posted in: News and Events, Poets Laureate