Literary Treasures: 2012 Witter Bynner Fellows Poetry Reading

The following post is part of our From the Catbird Seat series, “Literary Treasures.” The monthly series champions the Library’s literary programming by highlighting audio and video recordings drawn from the Library’s extensive online...

“This is the Conversation”: Getting to Know Allison Hedge Coke

Next week, Wednesday, March 9th, Allison Hedge Coke will come to the Library of Congress as the 2016 Witter Bynner Fellowship recipient. In advance of her evening Fellowship reading, the Poetry and Literature Center conducted an e-mail interview with her. Allison...

La Casa de Colores Update: More Good News

La Casa de Colores has been going strong for almost six months! We hope you have been following its journey along with us. If not, and you are asking yourself “What is La Casa de Colores?” please visit the project’s website to see all it has to...

“Es mi Familia”: La Familia Word Cloud

Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera’s year-long epic poem project, “La Familia,” which has been going strong since mid-September, has reached its halfway point. Is there a better way to celebrate this milestone, we asked ourselves, than by putting your...

Learning to Love Hispanic Lit in a Month

The following is a guest post by Aubrey Hobby, who completed a month-long internship at the Library of Congress Hispanic Division over the Hollins University Short Term. Aubrey Hobby. Photo by Matt Blakley. I grew up a reader and writer, a lover of the written word in...