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The collection contains letters, drafts, speeches, and papers relating to many organizations with which Meredith was associated, such as the Library of Congress, the Academy of American Poets, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Connecticut College, Princeton University, Yaddo, the National Institute of Arts and Letters, the Bread Loaf ...
One Today" is a poem by Richard Blanco first recited at the second inauguration of Barack Obama, making Blanco the fifth poet to read during a United States presidential inauguration. "One Today" was called "a fine example of public poetry, in keeping with Blanco’s other work: Loose, open lines of mostly conversational verse, a flexible ...
The pilot for the American Memory project was a digitization program which started in 1990. Selected Library of Congress holdings including examples of film, video, audio recordings, books and photographs were digitized and distributed on Laserdisc and CD-ROM.
Collectively, the poets laureate have brought more than 2,000 poets and authors to the Library to read for the Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature. Each consultant has brought a different emphasis to the position. [4] Maxine Kumin started a popular series of poetry workshops for women at the Library of Congress.
The Wright Brothers were cited as examples of American innovation and discovery which lifted up all of humanity. The Declaration of Independence had resulted in a model for the world to follow. The fundamental principle was democracy. Courage was required to sustain it. A new "Augustan age" was now emerging: "A golden age of poetry and power."
Hayden is also known as a nature poet and is included in the anthology Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry. His poem "A Plague of Starlings" is one of the more famous of his nature-based poems. [14] The poem "Night-Blooming Cereus" is another example of Hayden's depiction of the natural world.
Elizabeth Clendenning Ring writes of Mrs. Coates' war poetry: "in the present world crisis, of special interest are her views on war, voiced in the poems scattered throughout her work, particularly those in the still more recent 'Pro Patria,' that burn with a passionate fervor of patriotism, as stirring as the roll of drums at dawn." [3]
The inaugural National Youth Poet Laureate, Amanda Gorman, performing at the Library of Congress. [1]National Youth Poet Laureate is a title held in the United States by a young person who demonstrates skill in the arts, particularly poetry and/or spoken word, is a strong leader, is committed to social justice, and is active in civic discourse and advocacy.