“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...
Nohemi—A Song for Paris

Nohemi—A Song for Paris

The following is a guest blog by Juan Felipe Herrera, the 21st Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress. Nohemi Gonzalez is seen in a photo posted to Facebook by Strate-Ecole de Design. Sometimes all we have is the little song in our...