At a time when its leadership is in question and its mission challenged, the Library of Congress has named a new U.S. poet ...

The Library of Congress' new poet laureate, Arthur Sze, plans to spend his year working to translate poetry originally ...

The author and translator, a son of Chinese immigrants, aims to translate poetry from other languages during his time as a ...

Arthur Sze, a Pulitzer Prize-finalist and translator, has been appointed as the nation’s newest poet laureate and will use his time in the role to promote the impact of poetry in translation.

The Library of Congress has acquired a collection of musical manuscripts and other rare artifacts connected to "The Wizard of ...

Scrawled in pencil on a scrap of yellow legal paper by lyricist E.Y. "Yip" Harburg, the artifact is among dozens of treasures from The Wizard of Oz donated by composer Harold Arlen's sister-in-law ...

LIVE Saturday September 6th 9am-6pm ET on Book TV Acting Librarian of Congress Robert Newlen celebrated the start of the 2025 National Book Festival alongside several fea… Book TV presents coverage of ...

The 25th annual Library of Congress National Book Festival took place on Saturday, September 6, at the Walter E. Washington ...

Who is in charge of the Library of Congress: Congress or the president? Until recently, the settled answer in Washington was that the world’s largest library was, as its name states, a legislative ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump abruptly fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden on Thursday as the White House continues to purge the federal government of those perceived to oppose the ...

The Cherokee County Board of Commissioners, during a Sept. 15 meeting, heard from the Eastern Oklahoma Library System. Yolette Ross said the Public Library had a door count of 89,755; borrowed books, ...

Sze is a poet with a lot of acclaim — he's won the National Book Award, was a Guggenheim fellow and was a finalist for the ...