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Posted by: Robert Casper
We celebrate 2020 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry winners Terrance Hayes (for his 2018 poetry collection American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin) and Natasha Trethewey (for lifetime achievement), and invite you to watch their virtual event hosted by Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden.
Posted in: Digital Resources, News and Events, Poets Laureate
Posted by: Anne Holmes
It's a celebratory day for Joy Harjo: the Librarian of Congress has just appointed our poet laureate to serve a third term in the position. The announcement also marks the launch of Joy's signature project, "Living Nations, Living Words."
Posted in: Collections, Digital Resources, News and Events, Poets Laureate
Posted by: Robert Casper
Now the country can celebrate Gluck's achievement, and she joins Joseph Brodsky as the only other Nobel winner who held the U.S. poet laureate position.
Posted in: Digital Resources, News and Events, Poets Laureate
Posted by: Anne Holmes
Intern Maura Byrne has been creating new Poet Laureate resource guides—many of which are now live for the start of the 2020-2021 school year.
Posted in: Digital Resources, Guest Posts, Poets Laureate
Posted by: Robert Casper
Today is the start of the 20th annual National Book Festival—and the first to be completely virtual. We hope you take the opportunity to check out the great crop of poets, fiction writers, and memoirists featured this year, in our on-demand programming, live Q&As, and on the PBS special Sunday night.
Posted in: News and Events, Poets Laureate
Posted by: Anne Holmes
Poetry & Prose. The name is appropriately alliterative for this long-running stage at the Library of Congress National Book Festival that features some of our most literary writers.
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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 the Library of Congress presents the second virtual program in its series “Hear You, Hear Me,” featuring Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden with Joy Harjo and Tracy K. Smith—the two U.S. Poets Laureate she has appointed.
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Posted by: Anne Holmes
Megan Jenkins, a 2019-2020 academic year intern at the Poetry and Literature Center, reflects on her time at the Library of Congress.
Posted in: Collections, Digital Resources, Guest Posts, Poets Laureate