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Posted by: Neely Tucker
Jason Reynolds, the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, checks in with his April 2021 newsletter.
Posted in: National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, Poetry, Writers
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Today the Library launches Read Around the States, a program in which U.S. members of Congress pick a book for young people that is connected to their states – either through the book’s setting or author, or perhaps simply because it is a favorite of the member.
Posted in: Center for the Book, Congress, Writers
Posted by: Neely Tucker
My mother is 75. And that means a lot. It means she’s lived over 27,000 days, which is a whole bunch of days. It means she remembers when watching television was for fancy people—a luxury. Same as running water. And electricity. She remembers the civil rights movement, the March on Washington, the death of Dr. …
Posted in: National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, Writers
Posted by: Carla D. Hayden
Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress, congratulates Amanda Gorman on her sensational poetry reading at the presidential inauguration and remembers a 2017 reading Gorman gave at the Library.
Posted in: Poetry, U.S. Poet Laureate, Writers
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
Charles W. Calhoun, a history professor and author, has used the Library's collections for more than half a century in his work on studying late 19th century America.
Posted in: Civil War, Manuscripts, Researcher Stories, U.S. Presidents, Writers
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Jason Reynolds, the National Ambassador for Children's Literature, pens his December newsletter.
Posted in: National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, Writers
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Jason Reynolds, the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, is staging a virtual tour of 13 schools around the country in the first two weeks of December 2020.
Posted in: National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, Writers
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Joy Harjo, the first Native American to serve as the U.S. Poet Laureate, will serve a third term in the office, the Librarian of Congress announced today.
Posted in: American Folklife Center, Geography and Maps Division, New Online, U.S. Poet Laureate, Writers
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Jason Reynolds, the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, is back with the November edition of his monthly newsletter, Grab The Mic.
Posted in: Kids, National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, Writers