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Posted by: Peter Armenti
A post about Amanda Gorman's inaugural poem, "The Hill We Climb," along with resources to learn more about inaugural poetry.
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Posted by: Peter Armenti
The Presidential Inaugural Committee for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris announced that National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman perform her poetry at the 59th Presidential Inaugural Swearing-In Ceremony, set to take place on Wednesday, January 20, on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol.
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Posted by: Peter Armenti
For a limited time only, through October 23, 2020, you can watch the films that were finalists for the 2019 Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for film.
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Posted by: Peter Armenti
On October 24, 2019, the Library of Congress welcomed the fifth author in its yearlong National Book Festival Presents series, the inimitable fiction writer Alexander McCall Smith. As part of the programming surrounding Mr. McCall Smith's visit, staff from four Library divisions were asked to develop a display of items related to Mr. McCall Smith and his works.
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Posted by: Peter Armenti
The following guest post is by Abby Yochelson, Reference Specialist in the Main Reading Room, Researcher & Reference Services Division. The Library of Congress will celebrate the 200th anniversary of Whitman’s birthday in spring 2019 with a series of exhibits, public programs, and a digital crowdsourcing campaign to showcase the Library’s unparalleled collections of Whitman’s writings …
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Posted by: Peter Armenti
As From the Catbird Seat readers are no doubt aware from the recent string of Walt Whitman posts we’ve featured, the Library is in the middle of a season-long celebration of the 200th anniversary of Walt Whitman’s birthday. As part of this celebration, the Library has launched several new online Whitman-related initiatives and resources, including: …
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Posted by: Peter Armenti
The following cross-post is by Paul Sommerfeld, a Reference Specialist in the Music Division of the Library of Congress. It also appears on In The Muse: Performing Arts Blog. Since publishing Leaves of Grass in June 1855, Walt Whitman and his poetry have captured the American imagination. Not until the early twentieth century, however, did …
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Posted by: Peter Armenti
When the United States entered World War II in 1941, it opposed nations that had banned and burned books. In 1943, the Council on Books in Wartime, working with the War Department, began distributing pocket-size paperback volumes to soldiers in every theater of war. By 1947, approximately 123 million copies of some 1,300 titles in …
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The following is a guest post by Anne Holmes, a new staff member in the Library’s Poetry and Literature Center. We’re thrilled to invite you, dear PLC community, to join us for our 2016–2017 event season! This fall is jam-packed with a diverse program roster as we reignite our tried-and-true annual series and feature several …
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