Whether you're Team Scrooge (ahem!) or Team Tiny Tim, here are ten tidbits about Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol to trot out at your next Zoom holiday party.
National Endowment for the Arts Literary Arts Director Amy Stolls suggests companion books to read as part of your NEA Big Read in 2021-2022 or any time!
NEA Creative Writing Fellow Toni Jensen spoke with us about her newest book, Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land, which explores the intersection of gun violence, violence against women, and America’s history of violence against indigenous ...
As a child, Sandra Cisneros read voraciously, taking in “the language of books and writing and magic and mystery.” It was only much later, while attending the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, that Cisneros realized that her own language of working-class Mexic...
“Where is the Latino Cave Canem?” This is the question that brought Deborah Paredez, Celeste Mendoza, Norma E. Cantu, Pablo Martinez, and Carmen Tafolla together in 2009.
Since spring, we've been building a robust collection of recitations by students from across the U.S. who competed in Poetry Out Loud in the 2019-2020 school year. Below is just a sample of these video recitations.
The Clifton House in Baltimore, Maryland, recently received preservation funding through the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund. Given Lucille Clifton’s pre-eminence as a culture bearer of the Bl...