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Posted by: Anne Holmes
The following is a guest post by Anastasia Nikolis, the poetry editor for our newly relaunched Interview Series. Poetry has a reputation of being eccentric and esoteric; of being stunningly opaque but deeply meaningful. This is why people say they “don’t understand it,” won’t often read it, and more often turn to poems at times …
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Posted by: Anne Holmes
Six years ago, the Poetry and Literature Center celebrated its historic 75th anniversary by introducing a host of new online features, including its Interview Series. Between 2012 and 2015, the Center’s staff, interns, and friends across the Library of Congress engaged 16 emerging and established literary writers in dynamic and thought-provoking conversation. Over the past year, with …
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Posted by: Anne Holmes
The following introduction is written by Marie Arana, curator of “La Voz Latina”; literary advisor to the Library of Congress; coordinator of the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction; and literary director of the National Book Festival. This past weekend, at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, we were thrilled to …
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Posted by: Anne Holmes
It’s been eight weeks since we launched our inaugural poetry podcast series, From the Catbird Seat, with U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith as our first guest. Today, we air the eighth and final episode of the season, which you can listen to on our website or on iTunes. We decided to end this first …
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Posted by: Anne Holmes
Today, we air the seventh episode of our new poetry podcast series, From the Catbird Seat, which is available on our website and on iTunes. Tune in as Rob Casper goes behind the scenes with Matthew Zapruder, editor at large of Wave Books and the former director of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series, about the …
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Posted by: Anne Holmes
For your listening pleasure, the sixth episode of From the Catbird Seat—our new poetry podcast series—is up on our website and on iTunes. In this sixth installment, we revisit the 2015 Youth Poetry Slam at the National Book Festival. The Youth Poetry Slam event debuted at the Festival just a year earlier, in 2014, as …
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Posted by: Anne Holmes
Good news: The fifth episode of From the Catbird Seat is now available for your listening pleasure! In this fifth installment, Ghanaian poet and editor Kwame Dawes speaks with Rob Casper about the formation of the African Poetry Book Fund, an organization that promotes and advances the development and publication of the poetic arts of …
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