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BUSH ATTENDS BOOK GALA

President and Mrs. George W. Bush descend stairs at the Library of Congress following a program honoring authors at the National Book Festival Gala Dinner in Washington, DC, September 28, 2007. Also shown are Librarian of Congress James H. Billington and Mrs. Marjorie Billington. (UPI Photo/Martin H. Simon/Pool)


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Ryan set for 2nd Poet Laureate term
WASHINGTON, April 15 (UPI) -- Librarian of Congress James H. Billington says he has appointed Kay Ryan to serve a second term as U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- "Deliverance," "The Invisible Man," "Sergeant York" and "The Terminator" have been added to the U.S. National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- Historians Peter Robert Lamont Brown and Romila Thapar have been chosen to share the 2008 Kluge Prize, the U.S. Library of Congress announced Wednesday.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- Kay Ryan, the new poet laureate consultant in poetry to the U.S. Library of Congress, has agreed to open the library's 2008-2009 literary season with a reading.
Library of Congress to honor Wonder
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- U.S. singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder has been chosen to receive the Second Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, it was announced Tuesday.
WASHINGTON, July 17 (UPI) -- U.S. Librarian of Congress James H. Billington named Kay Ryan as the library's 16th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2008-09.
WASHINGTON, April 29 (UPI) -- A lecture on poetry translation will be the final time Charles Simic speaks as U.S. poet laureate, the Library of Congress said.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- Twenty-five classics from every era of American filmmaking have been added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- A New Orleans radio station has donated more than 7,000 hours of live jazz and blues recordings to the Library of Congress in Washington.
WASHINGTON, April 12 (UPI) -- Ted Kooser, who won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry last week, has won a second term as the nation's Poet Laureate.
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