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The Library’s Young Readers Center Celebrates National Poetry Month

Posted by: Brock Thompson

Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, Missing me one place search another, I stop somewhere waiting for you. —Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass So much of children’s literature is grounded in poetry.  From the ever-popular nursery rhyme to the the famous Green Eggs and Ham, children’s literature relies on verse to teach lessons, impart history, …

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LISTEN: Zora Neale Hurston Performs Folk Poetry and Song from her Native Florida

Posted by: Brock Thompson

The following guest post is by Ann Hoog, folklife specialist from the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. To celebrate Black History Month on this last day of February, Ann has written the following post on the Library’s extraordinary Zora Neale Hurston collections. Among the American Folklife Center’s extensive collections of ethnography, folk …