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Posted by: Robert Casper
Tonight at 7 PM EST we're excited to air the last event in our National Book Festival Presents series "Hear You, Hear Me," which features the newest of our Library literary ambassadors: Colson Whitehead, our 2020 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction winner.
Posted in: Interviews, News and Events
Posted by: Robert Casper
In the past week, we have been thinking a lot about this unprecedented moment and how poetry might help us live through it. We have also been talking to our poet laureate, Joy Harjo, about her life right now—and how she is responding to the COVID-19 coronavirus crisis with an eye toward poetry.
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Posted by: Robert Casper
Today is one of the biggest days of the year for the Poetry and Literature Center—it’s the day of the Poet Laureate announcement. I want to say how honored and excited we at the Center—and throughout the Library of Congress—are that Joy Harjo will be our 23rd Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry. Today’s announcement has been …
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Posted by: Robert Casper
Exciting news: The Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) Regional program has just awarded a $20,000 grant to the Academy of American Poets to support the addition of resources from the Library’s collections to the Academy’s Teach This Poem series for the 2019-2020 school year. In celebration of this news, I asked Academy of American …
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Posted by: Robert Casper
Tomorrow, March 20, the Library of Congress will host “Climate Change, Nature, and the Writer’s Eye,” a program honoring 2018 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction winner Annie Proulx. In anticipation, I asked Marie Arana—the coordinator of the prize, literary advisor to the Librarian of Congress, and literary director of the National Book Festival—a …
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Posted by: Robert Casper
Today the Library of Congress announced the appointment of the 22nd Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, Tracy K. Smith. Following is an interview that Poetry and Literature Center Digital Content Manager Anne Holmes conducted with Smith via e-mail. What was it like to get the call from the Librarian, asking you to be the next …
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Posted by: Robert Casper
The following is an interview with Dylan Orshefsky, who recently completed his internship at the Library of Congress Poetry and Literature Center. Where and what do you study? How did you intend your internship to relate to your studies/college experience? I am a senior at Georgetown University, and I’m majoring in English and Computer Science. At Georgetown, …
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Posted by: Robert Casper
The first month of the fall season is about over, and Juan Felipe Herrera has one month behind him as the Poet Laureate. In addition to his National Book Festival event and his opening reading, and the launch of his online project “La Casa de Colores” for the Library of Congress, he has found the …
Posted in: Interviews, News and Events, Poets Laureate
Posted by: Robert Casper
With Wednesday’s announcement of Juan Felipe Herrera as the Library’s 21st Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, hundreds of articles and spotlights appeared–more than any one person could go through! Of course, the best place to start finding out about Juan Felipe is on the Library’s website–here’s his LC Web Guide, courtesy of fellow “Catbird” blogger …
Posted in: Digital Resources, Interviews, News and Events, Poets Laureate