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Posted by: Anne Holmes
A new year is upon us, which brings with it reflections on the year behind us. We at the PLC thank you, our readers and audiences, for a literary year to remember, and offer you best wishes for the year to come. And now, the inevitable question: How will you be ringing in the new …
Posted in: Collections, Digital Resources, Poets Laureate
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. If a picture is indeed worth a thousand words, why not use photographs to prompt poetry? First select engaging photographs from the collections of the …
Posted in: Collections, Digital Resources, Guest Posts, Teacher's Corner
Posted by: Peter Armenti
When I was a child my family would gather each year at my aunt’s house on Christmas Eve for a night of festivities and merriment. And each year, far and away my favorite activity was our traditional singing of “The Twelve Days of Christmas.” Each of us would draw one of the twelve days from …
Posted in: Collections, Digital Resources
Posted by: Anne Holmes
The following article (“Ingenuity and Homage: Poetic Lotería by Artemio Rodríguez”) was written by Katherine Blood, curator of fine prints in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, and originally appeared in On Paper: Journal of the Washington Print Club (Fall 2016 Volume 1, No. 2) as a “Curator’s Choice” feature. We are reprinting …
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Posted by: Peter Armenti
The Library of Congress holds the largest archival collection of Walt Whitman materials in the world. These materials are primarily housed in the Library’s Manuscript Division and its Rare Book & Special Collections Division. In May, two of the Manuscript Division’s Whitman collections were made available on the Library’s website. First, the Thomas Biggs Harned …
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Posted by: Peter Armenti
The following is a guest post by Abby Yochelson, English and American Literature Reference specialist at the Library of Congress’s Main Reading Room, Humanities and Social Sciences Division. This is the second in a small series of blog posts on Shakespeare at the Library of Congress. Sometimes it’s possible to feel a little insecure about …
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Posted by: Peter Armenti
The following post is by Cheryl Lederle, an Educational Resource Specialist at the Library of Congress. It originally appeared on the Teaching with the Library of Congress blog. T.S. Eliot thought April was the cruelest month. William Carlos Williams thought it was the saddest. Longfellow and Ogden Nash said they loved it, and Emily Dickinson …
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Posted by: Peter Armenti
The following guest post is by Amber Paranick, a librarian in the Newspaper & Current Periodical Reading Room. Have you ever heard the phrase little magazine? Have you wondered exactly what it means? Turns out, the name really has nothing to do with the physical attributes of a magazine. Little magazines were the primary outlet …
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