Library’s Web Archiving: COVID-19 Challenges
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library is collecting web content that documents COVID-19's devastating impact on the nation.
Posted in: Cataloging, Collections, COVID-19, Influeza/Covid-19, Poetry
Category: Poetry
The 2020 National Book Festival: Fearless Women
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The 2020 National Book Festival will feature three major threads -- "Fearless Women, "Hearing Black Voices" and "Democracy in the 21st Century" -- that will anchor the Library's 20th festival and its first virtual one. This post focuses on "Fearless Women."
Posted in: National Book Festival, Poetry, U.S. Poet Laureate, Women's History, Writers
Gwendolyn Brooks: “We Real Cool,” Two Ways
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library has recently digitized Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks reading her poems, including the iconic "We Real Cool," at two events 24 years apart as part of National Poetry Month. The recordings are part of the 50 poems added each year to Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature.
Posted in: African American History, New Online, Poetry, Writers
“Caged Bird” Inspired by the Library of Congress
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
Poet Maya Angelou’s debut memoir, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” is her most famous work. The coming-of-age story has influenced writers and touched millions of people. 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 …
Posted in: Film, Poetry, Researcher Stories, Thomas Jefferson Building