Poet Laureate Joy Harjo Visits the Prints & Photographs Reading Room By Melissa Lindberg A version of the following post by Katherine Blood and Melissa Lindberg originally appeared in the Library of Congress Poetry and Literature Center's "From the Catbird Seat" blog as part of a series discussing Poet Laureate Joy Harjo's visits to several Library of Congress reading rooms. Katherine Blood, Joy Harjo and Melissa Lindberg – looking at a woodcut print by Alice Leora Briggs responding to Mark Strand's poem The Room. Photo by Shawn Miller, 2019. We were excited by the news that Joy Harjo would include the Prints & Photographs Division in her series of exploratory visits around the Library—an opportunity to share items from the collections that might intersect and spark with her research...
