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Posted by: Caitlin Rizzo
Salon has published a list of Six Most Influential Women Writers You’ve Never Heard Of. You may have a hard time tracking down these ladies in a books store (true to advertisement, I had never read any of their works), but a quick perusal through our catalog showed that they live on in our collections. …
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Posted by: Caitlin Rizzo
Next Wednesday, May 1, 2013, Natasha Trethewey, Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, will close the Spring literary season with the “Necessary Utterance: Poetry as Cultural Force” reading and lecture. To celebrate her year as Poet Laureate, she has selected five poets whose writing she feels illustrates the best of what poetry can do as force …
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Posted by: Caitlin Rizzo
The following is a guest post by Abby Yochelson, English and American Literature Reference specialist at the Library of Congress’s Main Reading Room, Humanities and Social Sciences Division. Can you help me find a novel I read about twenty years ago about time travel back to the dinosaur age? I’m trying to find a poem …
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Posted by: Caitlin Rizzo
Monday our office celebrated the beginning of April and the official start of National Poetry Month at the Poetry and Literature Center, and already it seems off to a promising start. This week, we’ve had two poetry readings at the Library: one to celebrate our new Witter Bynner Fellows, Sharon Dolin and Shara McCallum, and another …
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Posted by: Caitlin Rizzo
The following is a guest post made by Mason Henderson, a 2012-2013 intern at the Library of Congress Poetry and Literature Center. As a student of poetry in the MFA program at the University of Maryland, I have to admit that the Poetry and Literature Center is consistently spoiling me with brilliant poetry. On any …
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Posted by: Robert Casper
After a long and lovely holiday season, it’s nice to be back in the office with the whole of 2013 ahead of us. And what a year it will be—the Poetry and Literature Center will celebrate 75 years of Consultants and Poets Laureate. We kick off our big year in style, with a reading to …
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