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Posted by: Brett Zongker
The Library's 2024 National Book Festival will be August 24, featuring writers and personalities across the humanities including James McBride, Renee Fleming, James Patterson, Marie Arana and many others.
Posted in: Books, Drink, Events, Hispanic and Latino, LGBTQ, Library Work and Employees, Literacy, National Book Festival, Poetry, Washington DC, Writers
Posted by: Brett Zongker
Elton John and Bernie Taupin, one of the great songwriting duos of all time, will be the 2024 recipients of the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced today.
Posted in: Concerts, Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, Library Work and Employees, Music, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, News, Performing Arts, Writers
Posted by: Brett Zongker
Ada Limón, the U.S. Poet Laureate. is launching the signature project of her tenure: seven site-specific poetry installations in national parks across the country, an initiative with the National Park Service and the Poetry Society of America.
Posted in: Hispanic and Latino, Poetry, U.S. Poet Laureate, Writers
Posted by: Brett Zongker
U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón, who is known for work that explores the human connection to the natural world, is crafting a new poem dedicated to NASA’s Europa Clipper mission. Her poem, to be released in the coming months, will be engraved on the Europa Clipper spacecraft. It will travel 1.8 billion miles on its …
Posted in: Library Work and Employees, Poetry, Writers
Posted by: Brett Zongker
The Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums has presented one of its most significant awards to the Library and former U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo for “Living Nations, Living Words,” Harjo’s signature project during her 2019 to 2022 term. Harjo, the first Native American to hold the nation’s poet laureate position, was honored with …
Posted in: Geography and Maps Division, Library Work and Employees, Maps, Native Americans, Poetry, U.S. Poet Laureate, Women's History, Writers
Posted by: Brett Zongker
Historian George Chauncey, whose work has focused on LGBTQ issues for four decades, is the 2022 John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity. The Kluge Prize awards $500,000 to scholars for distinguished work in fields outside those covered by the Nobel Prize. Previous winners include political historian Danielle Allen, philosopher Jurgen Habermas, former president of Brazil Fernando Henrique Cardoso, and John Hope Franklin, the renowned scholar of African American history.
Posted in: Civil Rights, Kluge Center, LGBTQ, Writers