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Free Webinar—Teaching Poetry: Living Nations, Living Words on March 24, 4-5 ET

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.

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Made at the Library: “Rediscovering Eleanor Roosevelt” on March 18

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.

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Hanging Poems in Trees: Surround Students with Opportunities to Interact with Poetry

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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“Room Enough to Say What I Mean”: An Interview with Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon

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 Though the series is no longer active, From the Catbird Seat is reprinting these interviews to bring them new light.