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Posted by: Anne Holmes
The following guest post is by Guy Lamolinara, communications officer in the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress. This post accompanies online content just added to the “American Conversations” website for Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith’s visit to South Dakota from October 5-6, 2018. For my second “American Conversations” trip with Poet …
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Posted by: Anne Holmes
The following guest post is by Guy Lamolinara, communications officer in the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress. This post accompanies online content just added to the “American Conversations” website for Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith’s visit to Maine from November 1-2, 2018. Having had the privilege of traveling with the “American Conversations” …
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Posted by: Anne Holmes
During the last week of August, Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith traveled to rural communities in three of Alaska’s five regions as the kickoff to “American Conversations: Celebrating Poems in Rural Communities.” Today, we’re excited to share photos, interviews, and reflections from Tracy’s adventures in Alaska on the “American Conversations” website. “I’ve been welcomed into …
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Posted by: Anne Holmes
The following guest post is by Guy Lamolinara, communications officer in the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress. The beauty of Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith’s “American Conversations” project is that it brings poetry to places most book tours—or tours of any nature—never reach. The project kicked off August 27-29 with a …
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Posted by: Anne Holmes
At the end of this month, Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith will kick off her second-year project, “American Conversations: Celebrating Poems in Rural Communities,” with visits to communities around the state of Alaska. In the coming months, coordinated with Center for the Book state affiliates, she’ll also travel to rural communities in South Dakota, Maine, …
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Posted by: Anne Holmes
Among the diverse and modern voices Whitman envisioned would follow him are three recent U.S. Poet Laureate Consultants to the Library of Congress: Joy Harjo, Tracy K. Smith, and Juan Felipe Herrera. They served in association with the Library from 2015 to 2022 and were all inspired in their own ways by Whitman.
Posted in: Collections, Digital Resources, Poets Laureate, Walt Whitman
Posted by: Peter Armenti
On October 24, 2019, the Library of Congress welcomed the fifth author in its yearlong National Book Festival Presents series, the inimitable fiction writer Alexander McCall Smith. As part of the programming surrounding Mr. McCall Smith's visit, staff from four Library divisions were asked to develop a display of items related to Mr. McCall Smith and his works.
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Posted by: Anne Holmes
It’s been nearly two weeks since Poet Laureate Joy Harjo’s inaugural reading, and we’re still reeling from the event. If you missed it, you can tune in to watch the evening’s festivities via the Library’s YouTube site (with captions). Last week, we sat down with Shari Werb, director of the Library’s new Center for Learning, …
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Posted by: Anne Holmes
The following post is by Ryan Woodard, communications consultant for the South Dakota Humanities Council. This post originally appeared on the South Dakota Humanities Council blog following Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith’s “American Conversations” visit to South Dakota from October 5-6, 2018. According to legendary playwright/poet Oscar Wilde, memory is “the diary that we all carry about …
Posted in: Guest Posts, Poets Laureate