

Arts Nov 19

Harjo is the second poet laureate to serve this many terms in a row since the current duties of the position were established 77 years ago.
By Joshua Barajas
Arts Jun 24

Amid dual national crises of a pandemic and outrage over racism and police brutality, books provide opportunities both to learn more and to find distraction from reality. Jeffrey Brown talks to writer Jason Reynolds, the Library of Congress’ ambassador for…
By Jeffrey Brown, Anne Azzi Davenport
Arts Dec 11

The films, chosen in consultation with the National Film Preservation Board and library specialists, also include Spike Lee's 1986 “She's Gotta Have It," the 1959 Disney classic “Sleeping Beauty” and the Disney-produced “Old Yeller” from 1957.
By Associated Press
Arts Apr 23

Omar Ibn Said was 37 years old when he was taken from his West African home and transported to Charleston, South Carolina, as a slave in the 1800s. Now, his one-of-a-kind autobiographical manuscript has been translated from its original Arabic…
By Amna Nawaz, Leah Nagy
Jul 22

By Melissa Levine, The Conversation
Catalog data are a library's most important map to knowledge. What does it mean that the Library of Congress just released 25 million records to the public?…

By Elizabeth Flock
Last week, the Library of Congress selected Tracy K. Smith as the new U.S. Poet Laureate. Here, Smith shares the poetry she recommends reading right now.

By Joshua Barajas
Bennett is the ninth recipient, following past honorees like Smokey Robinson, Willie Nelson, Carole King, among others.

By Larisa Epatko
Tracy K. Smith, the nation’s newest poet laureate, says writing is not just about expressing emotion but of the choices you make when putting words on the page. She reads two of her poems here.

By Joshua Barajas
As the Library of Congress celebrates disco for the first time, we asked music historian Bill Brewster to spotlight five revolutionary disco tracks.
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