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Posted by: Anne Holmes
This interview with writer Justin Torres was conducted in 2013 by Kelly Yuzawa as part of the Poetry and Literature Center’s online Interview Series. The series featured emerging and established literary writers in dynamic and thought-provoking conversation. Though the series is no longer active, From the Catbird Seat is reprinting these interviews to bring them new light.
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Posted by: Anne Holmes
This interview with poet Aracelis Girmay was conducted in 2012 by (then-intern, now National Book Award winning writer) Elizabeth Acevedo as part of the Poetry and Literature Center’s online Interview Series. The series featured emerging and established literary writers in dynamic and thought-provoking conversation. Though the series is no longer active, From the Catbird Seat is reprinting these interviews to bring them new light.
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Posted by: Anne Holmes
Meet our three summer Junior Fellows—Mal Haselberger, Ethan McFerren, and Jake Newman—and learn about the literary programs they've helped develop over the past 10 weeks.
Posted in: Digital Resources, Interviews, National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, Poets Laureate
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.
Posted in: Interviews, Poets Laureate
Posted by: Anne Holmes
In anticipation of the 2020 Walter Awards on Friday, March 13, we asked author and emcee Grace Lin a few questions about the significance of the Walter Awards and her insights regarding diversity in children's literature.
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Posted by: Anne Holmes
Poet Maya Angelou’s debut memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, is her most famous work, yet its title is not original to Angelou: She borrowed it from a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar that he composed, at least in part, in response to his employment at the Library of Congress.
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