December 2017 ENewsletter – Poet Laureates

Tracy K. Smith, the new poet laureate of the U.S., assumed her one-year term of office in September 2017.  She stands on the shoulders of other women who have filled that office and the predecessor office.  These women include Gwendolyn Brooks who served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1985-1986 and Rita Dove who served as Poet Laureate from 1993-1995 and later also served as a Special Bicentennial Consultant.  Let’s learn more about Gwendolyn Brooks and Rita Dove.

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June 2017 HerStory ENewsletter – New Yorkers

June 2017 Her Story ENewsletter New Yorkers – The recent release of the documentary “Citizen Jane” profiling the influence that journalist and activist Jane Jacobs had on the development of New York City leads her to be profiled in this month’s ENewsletter. Another woman who loved New York City and documented its evolution in photographs, Berenice Abbott, joins

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