The Library of America has just initiated its own official blog, Reader’s Almanac. Among the first offering of posts are articles concerning Walt Whitman, Allen Ginsberg, Wiliam Faulkner, Elizabeth Bishop, Emily Dickinson, and Mark Twain, as well as others.The Library of America was instituted in 1979 with the aim of preserving classic works of the nation’s literary heritage in “durable and authoritative editions.” Founded with funds from grants by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Ford Foundation, The Library of America has continued as a nonprofit organization throughout the past three decades.
In 2003, The Library of America expanded its catalog by adding a special series of publications focused on American poetry, the American Poets Project. Readers and critics have admired the quality of the volumes produced by The Library of America. In fact, the publisher has been recognized by the National Book Critics Circle with an award for its “distinguished contributions to the enhancement of American literary and critical standards.”
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Wow, that is pretty awesome. Hopefully one day I will be able to have a work or two published in one of their volumes. Speaking of which, since you have a rather profound (at least compared to myself anyway) knowledge of various poetry styles, I would very much appreciate it if you could swing by my blog and critque some of my work ( http://lavonelyrics.blogspot.com ). Hope to hear from you soon!
-LaVone
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