The Library of Congress promotes poetry and literature year-round through our online and in-person programs, our honors and prizes, and our ambassadors.

Apr 20, 2020 · 1) For any given poem, first try to determine if the poem was published in a standalone collection of poetry written by the author of the poem. Often, major online sources of poems such as the Poetry Foundation or Academy of American Poets will list the collection in which a particular poem appears.

Apr 24, 2019 · Locating a novel, short story, or poem without knowing its title or author can be a frustrating and difficult endeavor. This guide is intended to help readers identify a literary work when they know only its plot, subject, or other secondary characteristics such as a character's name, an illustration, or snippets of remembered words and phrases.

Oct 1, 2021 · This guide describes many of the publishers that have run poetry contests whose winning poems were published in amateur poetry anthologies, and offers information on how to locate these anthologies at the Library of Congress, other libraries, and bookstores.

Mar 9, 2018 · That said, it’s not always possible to pinpoint the exact source of a poem, or to definitively identify a poem’s author. Such is the case with the poem at the end Guillermo del Toro’s 2017 movie — and recent winner of the Academy Award for …

Winning Poems by Author Poem Nigerian Girl with Calabash She sells milk to thirsty travelers, wraps her spine slow on the shoulder of the road calabash on head, broad woody bowl perched on circular twist of dyed cotton cloth, her body a thread beneath it.

A selection of Library of Congress primary sources exploring the topic of American authors in the nineteenth century, including Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Edgar Allan Poe.

Poem 001: Introduction to Poetry I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem's room and feel the walls for a light switch.

Apr 21, 2015 · “The Star-Spangled Banner” is the poem for which Key is best remembered, mainly for the historical significance behind it rather than its art. And it bears the additional charm of having extra “O’s” in it for Baltimore sports fans. His flowery poem has come to be remembered in his home state as a source of native pride.

Jan 31, 2025 · Looking for poems you or a family member submitted to a poetry contest and had published in a poetry anthology? Use this guide to help find them.