Film, Video Kay Ryan: 2008 National Book Festival
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Title
- Kay Ryan: 2008 National Book Festival
Summary
- Kay Ryan, Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2008-2009, speaks at the National Book Festival.
Names
- Library of Congress
- National Book Festival (U.S.), sponsoring body
Created / Published
- Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2008-09-27.
Headings
- - Education
- - Literature
- - Poetry
Notes
- - Classification: Education.
- - Classification: Language and Literature.
- - Kay Ryan.
- - Recorded on 2008-09-27.
- - Kids, Families.
- - Teachers.
- - Kay Ryan, the Library of Congress's 16th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2008-2009, has written six books of poetry, plus a limited-edition artist's book, along with a number of essays. Her books include "Say Uncle" (2000) and "The Niagara River" (Grove Press, 2005). She is the recipient of several awards, including the Gold Medal for poetry (2005) from the San Francisco Commonwealth Club, the Poetry Foundation's Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (2004) and four Pushcart Prizes. She has been selected in four different years for inclusion in the annual volumes of the Best American Poetry and has been a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets since 2006. She lives in Fairfax, Calif.
Medium
- 1 online resource
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Library of Congress Control Number
- 2021692073
Online Format
- video
- image