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LVA celebrates National Poetry Month 2022 with its Virginia Literary Award Winners and Nominees

Robert Frost said, “Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.” Virginia’s own Rita Dove advances this thought:…

Nan CarmackApril 1, 2022

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Celebrating National Poetry Month: David Huddle

Poetry. Heart music, soul song. There is something about this particular arrangement of words that digs a deeper meaning out of a word, a phrase.…

Nan CarmackApril 23, 2021

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Celebrating National Poetry Month: Lauren K. Alleyne

Poetry. Heart music, soul song. There is something about this particular arrangement of words that digs a deeper meaning out of a word, a phrase.…

Nan CarmackApril 16, 2021

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Celebrating National Poetry Month 2021: Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley

Poetry. Heart music, soul song. There is something about this particular arrangement of words that digs a deeper meaning out of a word, a phrase.…

Nan CarmackApril 9, 2021

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Wrap Up the Week with More Virginia Poetry

Welcome to week 3 of our exploration of Virginia Literary Award Poetry Winners and Finalists. This week we feature LVA runners up Bob Hicok and…

Nan CarmackApril 24, 2020

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Virginia Literary Award-Winning Poetry During National Poetry Month

This week, we explore the poetry of Claudia Emerson (1957-2014). Emerson served as the 2008-2010 Poet Laureate of Virginia, and won the Pulitzer Prize in…

Nan CarmackApril 17, 2020

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22 Years of Celebrating Virginia Authors!

The Library of Virginia's annual Literary Awards are now in their 22nd year! Since 1997 the Library of Virginia has honored Virginia authors in the…

Jessi BennettOctober 16, 2019