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Film, Video Bicentennial Symposium: Poetry & the American People

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Title

  • Bicentennial Symposium: Poetry & the American People

Summary

  • As part of the celebration of its bicentennial celebration, the Library sponsored a symposium, "Poetry and the American People: Reading, Voice and Publication in the 19th and 20th Centuries" featuring a number of distinguished speakers--including past Poet Laureates--followed by an evening reading by Robert Pinsky and W.S. Merwin.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • Library of Congress. Literary Initiatives Office, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2000-04-04.

Headings

  • -  Literature
  • -  Poetry
  • -  poetry, America, 1800-2000

Notes

  • -  Classification: Language and Literature.
  • -  Joshua Weiner, Robert Pinsky, Naomi Shihab Nye, Louise Glück, W.S. Merwin, Rita Dove.
  • -  Recorded on 2000-04-04.
  • -  Publishers.
  • -  Researchers.
  • -  Teachers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2020720023

Online Format

  • video
  • online text
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Literary Initiatives Office. Bicentennial Symposium: Poetry & the American People. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -04-04, 2000. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2020720023/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & Library Of Congress. Literary Initiatives Office, S. B. (2000) Bicentennial Symposium: Poetry & the American People. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -04-04. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2020720023/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Literary Initiatives Office. Bicentennial Symposium: Poetry & the American People. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -04-04, 2000. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2020720023/>.