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 aims to translate poetry from other languages during his time as a Poet Laureate, he said in a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Carla Hayden, the 14th librarian of Congress, who has held the position since 2016, received an unexpected email on May 8, 2025. “Carla, on behalf of President Donald J. Trump, I am writing to inform ...

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 ...

A man from Santa Fe now has one of the nation's highest honors for a poet after the Library of Congress named him the next Poet Laureate.

Every story was different- you just never knew what the story was.” Past the elevator on the second floor, just next to the ...

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 ...