They Printed It First: The Advance Guard and the Early Days of Little Poetry Magazines
The following guest post is by Amber Paranick, a librarian in the Newspaper & Current Periodical Reading Room. Have you ever heard the phrase little magazine? Have you wondered exactly what it means? Turns out, the name really has nothing to do with the physical...
Rediscovering the Warrior-Poet: Finding Audre Lorde at the Library of Congress
The following is a guest post by Megan Metcalf, a reference librarian in the Library’s Humanities & Social Sciences Division. One weekday afternoon, I found myself sitting across the table from the self-proclaimed Black, lesbian, feminist, and warrior-poet...Documenting California Sounds and Communities
The following post was written by Cathy Kerst from the Library’s American Folklife Center (AFC), and originally appeared on the AFC’s Folklife Today blog. Documenting California Sounds and Communities: The Story of Migration and Settlement from the New...