Melanie McCabe is the author of three books of poetry: The Night Divers (a finalist for the most recent Library of Virginia Literary Awards), What…
Guest ContributorApril 26, 2024
Gregory Orr is the author of thirteen collections of poetry, the most recent of which is Selected Books of the Beloved. He is also the…
Guest ContributorApril 12, 2024
Tina Parker is the author of three books of poetry. The poetry collection Mother May I and the poetry chapbook Another Offering were published in 2016. Her newest collection, Lock…
Nan CarmackApril 21, 2023
Sandra Beasley is the author of Made to Explode, winner of the Housatonic Book Award; Count the Waves; I Was the Jukebox, winner of the…
Guest ContributorApril 7, 2023
For the final week of National Poetry Month, we are pleased to present our LVA Virginia Literary Award winning poet, Annie Kim, as our guest…
Guest ContributorApril 22, 2022
The Library of Virginia is a favorite haunt for genealogists, tracking down their ancestors with great hopes of finding a notable person in their family…
Nan CarmackApril 15, 2022
Bill Glose was born into a military family, moving frequently overseas, but found home at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia. An ROTC Hokie, Bill…
Nan CarmackApril 8, 2022
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
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
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
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
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
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
Poetry offers so much--thought and lyricism, nuggets of truth (both our own and the poet's) as well as a lens through which we can see…
Nan CarmackApril 10, 2020
