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National Poetry Month Spotlight: William Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language. While more known for his plays, he originally garnered fame with his poetry.

National Poetry Month Spotlight: Shel Silverstein is known for his darkly humorous, irreverent poems populated with invented characters and his simple yet energetic pen-and-ink illustrations.

National Poetry Month Spotlight: Rupi Kaur is a Canadian born poet and author who became popular on Instagram and Tumblr through sharing her short visual poetry. Her most recent book, home body (2020), debuted at #1 on bestsellers lists across the world.

National Poetry Month Spotlight: Nobel Prize recipient Rabindranath Tagore played a leading role in Indian cultural renaissance and came to be recognized, along with Mohandas Gandhi, as one of the architects of modern India.

National Poetry Month Spotlight: Phillis Wheatley was one of the best known poets of the 19th century and her achievements served as a catalyst for the burgeoning antislavery movement.

National Poetry Month Spotlight: Gwendolyn Brooks was the first Black poet to win the Pulitzer Prize as well as the first Black woman to hold the role of Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, a position now referred to as the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry.

National Poetry Month Spotlight: Emily Dickinson is regarded as one of the most important and original American Poets of all time. Of the nearly 1,800 poems written, only 10 were published in her lifetime.

National Poetry Month Spotlight: E.E. Cummings was an American poet and painter who experimented with poetic language and form to define his own personal style.

April Fools: The Roots of an International Tradition

April Fools: The Roots of an International Tradition | Folklife Today Note: A shorter version of this article was published in the March/April 2016 issue of LCM: Library of Congress Magazine. Download a pdf here. We also transformed this article into episode 6 of our podcast. Find the podcast at this link! Scan your favorite newspapers or news websites this April 1, a...

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Where are the Women? 10 trailblazers forgotten from history...

Where Are the Women? - Google Arts & Culture 10 trailblazers forgotten from history

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Georgia Smith, a library assistant at ABAC Library, has been using GALILEO her entire adult life (since college!)

"GALILEO is an essential part of the process of discernment in an ever-increasing AI-generated internet."

International Women's Day is celebrated in many countries around the world. It is a day when women are recognized for their achievements without regard to divisions, whether national, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic or political.

Learn more:
https://www.un.org/en/observances/womens-day/background

Julieanna L. Richardson, founder of The HistoryMakers, discusses the importance of documenting and preserving the history of Black America for future generations. Click the link below:

https://www.ted.com/talks/julieanna_l_richardson_the_mission_to_safeguard_black_history_in_the_us?hasSummary=true&autoplay=true&referrer=playlist-talks_to_celebrate_black_history_month

Also check out https://www.thehistorymakers.org/

Julieanna L. Richardson: The mission to safeguard Black history in the US Black history in the US is rich, profound -- and at risk of being lost forever, if not for the monumental efforts of Julieanna L. Richardson. As the founder of The HistoryMakers -- the largest national archive of African American video-oral history -- Richardson shares some of the unknown and incred...