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June 4, 2008
Alumni Library features poetry for all ages and more
University Park, PA—The latest "edition" of Penn State's Alumni Library at http://alumni.libraries.psu.edu, features the Pennsylvania Center for the Book, spotlighting its cultural heritage map and poetry through the Public Poetry Project as well as the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award for Children.
Penn State's University Libraries became the home of Pennsylvania’s Center for the Book (PACFTB) in 2000, following the approval of the Library of Congress. Its award-winning interactive map of Pennsylvania features information about Pennsylvania authors and gives the armchair traveler a closer look at a host of destinations in our state.
Each spring the PACFTB sponsors the Public Poetry Project and the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award for Children. Since its inception, the center has highlighted the importance of poetry in the lives of people at all ages. The Public Poetry Project has a mission to make poetry more available in the daily lives of Pennsylvanians by placing poems in public places.
The Historical Digital Collegian database, covers 100 years (1887-1987). This issue looks at the string of poets' names sprinkled through its pages—Fred Lewis Pattee, Edgar A. Guest, Edwin Markham, James Stephens, W. H. Auden, Theodore Roethke, Carl Sandburg, Dylan Thomas, Richard Eberhart, Robert Frost, e.e. Cummings, Archibald MacLeish, Stephen Spender, John Brunner, John Balaban, Nikki Giovanni, Donald Justice, Denise Levertov, Gary Snyder, Stanley Kunitz, Gwendolyn Brooks, Maxine Kumin, W.S. Merwin, Carolyn Kizer, Lucille Clifton, Russell Edson.
These resources and more can be found at Penn State's Alumni Library, a joint project of the University Libraries and the Penn State Alumni Association. The Penn State Alumni Association strives to connect alumni to the University, to each other, provide valuable benefits to members, and support the University’s mission of teaching, research, and service. For more information on the Alumni Association, go to www.alumni.psu.edu.
Penn State University Libraries are a major resource for students, faculty and staff, as well as residents of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The largest research library in Pennsylvania, it is one of four resource libraries that provide service and collections to all other libraries and citizens of the commonwealth. For more information, go to www.libraries.psu.edu.