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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."
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.
Edward Hirsch wrote: "There is a sense of quiet amazement at the core of all Kooser’s work, but it especially seems to animate his new collection of poems, Delights & Shadows." Kooser's most recent books are Kindest Regards: New and Selected Poems and Red Stilts (2020). He founded and hosted the newspaper project "American Life in Poetry". [12]
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 ...
"Sympathy" is an 1899 poem written by Paul Laurence Dunbar. Dunbar, one of the most prominent African-American writers of his time, wrote the poem while working in unpleasant conditions at the Library of Congress. The poem is often considered to be about the struggle of African-Americans.
Elizabeth Bishop (February 8, 1911 – October 6, 1979) was an American poet and short-story writer. She was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1949 to 1950, the Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry in 1956, [1] the National Book Award winner in 1970, and the recipient of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1976. [2]
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]
He was appointed the sixth Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, where he served from 1947 until 1948. [6] [7] In addition to winning the National Book Award, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1947 and 1974, the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1977, and a National Institute of Arts and Letters Award in 1947. He is "widely ...