Applications Open for Public Programs Celebrating Latino Poetry
LOA LIVE: Top 10 Programs of All Time
“The creative processes are, or should be, essentially secret”: Farah Jasmine Griffin on Ann Petry
Remembering Christopher Carduff: 1956–2023
“Her gin-drinking, smoking, bisexual persona was heady stuff for a 19-year-old”: Suzanne Vega on Carson McCullers
Adopt This Book: William Maxwell: Later Novels and Stories
“Funny thing happens in the life of a trope”: Henry Louis Gates, Jr., on W.E.B. Du Bois and Zora Neale Hurston
“He loved a broad margin to his life”: Maxine Hong Kingston on Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson
“An American Pléiade”: Adam Gopnik on Edmund Wilson, S. J. Perelman, and Richard Wilbur
Adopt This Book: African American Poetry
LOA Marks 40 Years with Star-Studded Celebration
Forthcoming: Spring 2024
Spring 2023 LOA in the Classroom: students learn Thoreau’s ideas on our responsibility to the natural world
Library of America Diverse Voices Editorial Fellowship (now hiring for Fall 2023)
Intern guest post: An author who wrote all about, and for, flawed women
Adopt This Book: Herman Melville: Complete Poems