Collections Spotlight: Poetry from Around the World
The PALABRA Archive is a collection of original audio recordings of 20th and 21st century Luso-Hispanic poets and writers reading from their works since 1943. It features recordings in more than thirteen languages including Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, Creole, and Indigenous languages such as Mayan, Nahuatl, Wayuu, and Quechua.
- The PALABRA Archive Turns 80 4 Corners of the World
- The Poet Laureate Explores the Library’s Historic PALABRA Archive Bookmarked
- Mexican Women in the PALABRA Archive 4 Corners of the World
- The PALABRA Archive in the Classroom 4 Corners of the World
“Living Nations, Living Words” contains audio recordings of 47 contemporary Native American poets reading and discussing original poems.
- Explore the Story Map
- Explore the educator guide
- New at the Library: Literary Papers of Wyandot Poet Hen-Toh Bookmarked
- Story-Teller Poet: The Ai Ogawa Papers are Newly Available in the Manuscript Division Unfolding History
The South Asian Literary Recordings Project includes readings of prominent South Asian poets, novelists, and playwrights in more than fifteen of the languages of India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
- Like the Moon Surrounded by Stars: Classic Poetry from South Asia in the Library’s Collections Bookmarked
- Who Wrote the Poem at the End of “The Shape of Water”? 4 Corners of the World
- Rabindranath Tagore: A Great Indian Poet and Writer 4 Corners of the World
Collection of Selected Li Bai and Du Fu poems from 1694
Three Tutuila Poets: Le Si’Uleo 0 Samoa 1992-94
More 4 Corners of the World blog posts
- Afghanistan Reflected in the Collections at the Library of Congress
- Blake Robinson Recordings of Somali Music and Poetry
- Escaping the Heat: The Kangxi Emperor’s “Imperial Poems on the Summer Resort”
- Homage to Heroes
- James Gale and the Korean Rare Materials at the Korean Collection
- Rachel Bluwstein (1890-1931), Hebrew Poetess and Pioneer: “The Parade in White Passed By” – Part One
- Rachel Bluwstein (1890-1931), Hebrew Poetess and Pioneer: “The Parade in White Passed By” – Part Two
- The Rivers Sing to the Emperor: A Hebrew Poem of Victory for Joseph II