NATIONAL POETRY MONTH 2024
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Get a free Official National Poetry Month Poster. Featuring artwork by Jack Wong, and lines from “blessing the boats” by Lucille Clifton.
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ART News | Resignation of ALA President, Tracie D. Hall
Executive Director Tracie D. Hall to Depart from the American Library Association From (ALA) — The American Library Association (ALA) announced today that Tracie D. Hall will resign from her role as executive director following nearly four transformative years at the Association. Her last day of service, Friday, October 6. During her tenure, Hall brought…
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ART Community | Participate in Community-Centered Archives Survey
Featured Now open: Community-Centered Archives Survey: Sharing Your Content Online You are invited to participate in this survey as a representative of a community-centered archives (CCA). We define community-centered archives as organizations with collections of content or materials documenting the lives of underrepresented, marginalized, or disenfranchised people that typically reside outside of traditional academic and…
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ART QUOTE | SONIA SANCHEZ
“I shall become, I shall become a collector of me. And put meat on my soul.” Sonia Sanchez, Poet | Writer | Activist Reference: Sonia Sanchez, 1988. (n.d.). In Encyclopedia of Alabama. Alabama Humanities Alliance. https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/media/sonia-sanchez-1988/
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ART EXHIBITION | DARK TESTAMENT: A CENTURY OF BLACK WRITERS ON JUSTICE
About the Exhibition Immerse yourself in Dark Testament: A Century of Black Writers on Justice and honor the significant contributions of Black writers to American literature and history. Explore and better understand racial injustice in America by examining the work of Black American writers from the end of the Civil War through the Civil Rights…
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ART Podcast | Episode (Author Interviews) Listen to Poet, Nikki Finney on NPR
POETRYVibe Listen to the opening of National Poetry Month 2023 with NPR’s Scott Detrow, featuring an interview with National Book Award Winner, Poet Nikki Finney. In this episode learn more about her awarding winning body of work: Head Off & Split. Image: Nikki Finney, CC BY-NC, By “SLOWKING” | Podcast Courtesy of NPR
Cover Image Courtesy, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. (1893). Phillis Wheatley Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-7329-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
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