{"id":8789,"date":"2015-04-21T10:53:13","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T15:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=8789"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:09:56","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:09:56","slug":"the-library-of-congress-releases-50-audio-recordings-and-counting-online-for-the-first-time-mobylives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2015\/04\/21\/the-library-of-congress-releases-50-audio-recordings-and-counting-online-for-the-first-time-mobylives\/","title":{"rendered":"The Library of Congress releases 50 audio recordings (and counting!) online for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhpbooks.com\/the-library-of-congress-releases-50-audio-recordings-and-counting-online-for-the-first-time\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/300px-Library_of_Congress_Great_Hall_-_Jan_2006-235x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"border: 0px;margin-bottom: 1em;padding: 0px;vertical-align: baseline;color: #333333;font-family: 'Droid Serif', Georgia, Times, serif;font-size: 15px;font-style: normal;line-height: 21.75px\">The\u00c2\u00a0<i style=\"border: 0px;margin: 0px;padding: 0px;vertical-align: baseline\">New York Times<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0<a style=\"border: 0px;margin: 0px;padding: 0px;vertical-align: baseline;color: #2fa1bc\" href=\"http:\/\/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2015\/04\/19\/library-of-congress-begins-posting-its-recorded-poetry-archive\/?ref=books\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0that the\u00c2\u00a0<strong style=\"border: 0px;margin: 0px;padding: 0px;vertical-align: baseline\">Library of Congress<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0has begun posting recordings from its\u00c2\u00a0<strong style=\"border: 0px;margin: 0px;padding: 0px;vertical-align: baseline\">Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0in honor of\u00c2\u00a0<strong style=\"border: 0px;margin: 0px;padding: 0px;vertical-align: baseline\">National Poetry Month<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"border: 0px;margin-bottom: 1em;padding: 0px;vertical-align: baseline;color: #333333;font-family: 'Droid Serif', Georgia, Times, serif;font-size: 15px;font-style: normal;line-height: 21.75px\">50 of the collection\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nearly 2,000 audio recordings are now available online, and another will be added each month as the program continues. This initial sample includes a 1971 lecture by<strong style=\"border: 0px;margin: 0px;padding: 0px;vertical-align: baseline\">\u00c2\u00a0Kurt Vonnegut<\/strong>;\u00c2\u00a0<strong style=\"border: 0px;margin: 0px;padding: 0px;vertical-align: baseline\">Robert Frost<\/strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s interview with\u00c2\u00a0<strong style=\"border: 0px;margin: 0px;padding: 0px;vertical-align: baseline\">Randall Jarrell<\/strong>; readings by<strong style=\"border: 0px;margin: 0px;padding: 0px;vertical-align: baseline\">Elizabeth Bishop, Galway Kinnell, Rita Dove, William Meredith, Gwendolyn Brooks, Paul Muldoon<\/strong>, and many others;\u00c2\u00a0<strong style=\"border: 0px;margin: 0px;padding: 0px;vertical-align: baseline\">Ray Bradbury<\/strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s excellent lecture, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Beyond\u00c2\u00a0<em style=\"border: 0px;margin: 0px;padding: 0px;vertical-align: baseline;font-style: italic\">1984<\/em>: What To Do When The Doom Doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Arrive\u00e2\u20ac\u009d; audio from the\u00c2\u00a0<strong style=\"border: 0px;margin: 0px;padding: 0px;vertical-align: baseline\">Academy of American Poets<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a035th anniversary program in 1969, and more.\u00c2\u00a0Start listening\u00c2\u00a0<a style=\"border: 0px;margin: 0px;padding: 0px;vertical-align: baseline;color: #2fa1bc\" href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/collections\/archive-of-recorded-poetry-and-literature\/?fa=online-format%3Aaudio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhpbooks.com\/the-library-of-congress-releases-50-audio-recordings-and-counting-online-for-the-first-time\/\">The Library of Congress releases 50 audio recordings (and counting!) online for the first time \u00c2\u00bb MobyLives<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Library of Congress has begun posting recordings from its Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature in honor of National Poetry Month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1051,1050,833,1049],"class_list":["post-8789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-archive-of-recorded-poetry-and-literature","tag-audio","tag-library-of-congress","tag-national-poetry-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8789"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9964,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8789\/revisions\/9964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}