450 Years of Spanish Poetry in the United States
The Hispanic Division and Argentinian-American poet Luis Alberto Ambroggio sponsored the celebration of "450 Years of Spanish Poetry Written in the United States." Poet and translator Moraima de Semprun Donahoe read poems by Odon Betanzos, who could not attend due to health reasons. Other readers included Chicano poet Tino Villanueva, Ambroggio, Puerto Rican poet Naomi Ayala and Cuba-American poet Maricel Mayor Marsan.
Americas Awards
The Americas Award recognizes outstanding U.S. works of fiction, poetry, folklore or selected nonfiction published in the previous year. The works must "authentically and engagingly portray Latin America, the Caribbean or Latinos in the United States."
2003 Awards
2004 Awards
2005 Awards
2006 Awards
2005 American Awards
Juan Felipe Herrera received the 2005 Americas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature at the 13th annual award presentation hosted by the Library of Congress.
2006 Americas Awards
Authors Margarita Engle and Jennifer Riesmeyer Elvgren and illustrators Sean Qualls and Nicole Tadgell received the 2006 Americas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature at the 14th annual award presentation hosted by the Library of Congress Hispanic Division and the Center for the Book.
2006
National Poetry Month Celebration
Led by Washington, D.C., poets Richard McCann and Kenny Carroll.
Burnt Sugar Cana Quemada
The Hispanic Division and the Center for the Book organized a reading of "Burnt Sugar Cana Quemada" (2006) by the editors Oscar Hijuelos and Lori Marie Carlson. "Burnt Sugar" features the best of Cuban poetry in both Spanish and English.
Cowboy Poetry: History, Origins, Influences, Forms
David Stanley discusses the history and development cowboy poetry in American culture as part of the Benjamin Botkin Lecture Series sponsored by the American Folklife Center.
Deft,
Daring and Delightful: Mystery Writers Discuss Their
Craft
Authors Jo Dereske, Carolyn G. Hart, Katherine Hall Page,
Patricia Sprinkle and Jacqueline Winspear talk about their
sleuths, their fans and their methods of conducting research.
Iranian Writers
Iranian novelist Moniro Ravanipour, author and publisher Babak Takhti, author Shahryar Mandanipour and playwright Ezzat Goushegir participated in a panel discussion on "Iranians Writing and Publishing Today, At Home and Abroad" in a program sponsored by the African and Middle Eastern Division and the University of Maryland Center for Persian Studies.
Lark in the
Morning: The Verses of the Troubadours
Robert Kehew discussed his recently published anthology
of poetry of the French troubadours, "Lark in the
Morning: The Verses of the Troubadours, a Bilingual Edition."
MacDowell Colony Poets (November 8, 2007)
Six poets who served residencies at the MacDowell Colony are featured in readings by Stephen Dunn, Peter Klappert and Kathy Mangan. These poets also read a sampling of poems by three past Poet Laureates who attended MacDowell: Louise Bogan, Anthony Hecht and Stanley Kunitz.
The Nuts and Bolts of Historical Fiction
The construction of historical fiction requires the attributes of good story telling plus some important additional components. Novelist David L. Robbins -- whose most recent political thriller, "The Assassins Gallery," imagines the assassination of President Franklin D. Roosevelt -- discusses the building blocks of historical novels in a lecture sponsored by the Center for the Book.
Pirates and Corsairs of the Americas in History and Literature (December 8, 2007)
Panel I, Part 1
Panel I, Part 2
Panel II, Part 1
Panel II, Part 2
Poetry
in America: A Library of Congresss Bicentennial Celebration
(April 3-4, 2000)
Celebrating
the completion of The Favorite Poem Project, a video
and audio archive of more than 1,000 Americans
of all ages and from all backgrounds reading aloud their
favorite poems. The April 3rd program includes
readings of "favorite poems" by Poet Laureate
Robert Pinsky, Rita Dove, Louise Gluck, and W.S. Merwin,
along with Joshua Weiner and Naomi Shihab Nye.
April
3rd Videocast (direct
link)
http://www.connectlive.com/events/libraryofcongress/loc-poetry040300.ram
April
4th Videocast
http://www.loc.gov/locvideo/cybercast/
River
of Words Awards Ceremony
2002 Ceremony
2006 Ceremony
2007 Ceremony
Writers from Iowa's International Writer's Program Read From Their Work (November 15, 2007)
Features readings by Elena Bossi from Argentina; Khaled Khalifa, Syria; Kavery Nambisam, India; Aziz Shakir-Tash, Bulgaria; and Ognjen Spahic, Montenegro.
"The
2004 PEN Awards for Literature" (including Russell
Banks, Jennifer Haigh, Carlo Rotella, and Joan Leegant)
Celebrating Boston Athenaeum Writers Past and Present I
J. Frederick Marchant presents Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Jill McDonough presents Amy Lowell; and Rosanna Warren presents Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Escrita Da Vida
A public colloquium on contemporary Portuguese-American literature featuring two conversations, each including a pair of critically acclaimed Portuguese-American writers and moderated by a prominent scholar.
"German
Expressionist Poetry, Identity and Clothing"
"Greek
Gods, Human Lives: Our Fascination with Myths"
Letters About Literature, 2007
"Little
Red Riding Hood Uncloaked"
"Making
a Case for Comic Fiction"
Songs of Yeats, Joyce, O'Casey, Behan, and Kavanagh
Danny Doyle, a prominent member of Irish folk revival movement, performs some of the most famous modern Irish poetry.
"Writers
on War"
Writer's Room Presents: LeHane, Mazur and Perrotta
Dennis Lehane, Gail Mazur, and Tom Perrotta talk about the New England authors who have influenced their work.
Writer's Roundtable (includes Keith Lee Morris, Kwame Dawes, Aaron Petrovich, Jillian Weise and Alex Lemon)
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