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A Poetry Reading in Gerry Park

This past Friday, September 22nd, The Bryant Library hosted an open mic poetry reading in the Gerry Park gazebo. Organized by librarians...

Sep 27, 20231 min read

“We heard a critic remark that no great sonnets are being written nowadays.” This editorial statement opens Christopher Morley’s “The...

Apr 20, 20235 min read

As February morphs quickly into March, and Women’s History Month follows in the wake of Black History Month, it seems appropriate to note...

Feb 27, 20233 min read

Excerpted from Edgar Allan Poe’s April 1846 lengthy analysis of the publication of The Complete Poetical Works of W. C. Bryant, the...

Jan 3, 20227 min read

November 3, 2019 marks the 225th birthday of William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), our Library’s namesake. In 1875, Bryant built a “Reading...

Jan 3, 20222 min read

The Groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them - ere he...

Jan 3, 20224 min read

A pillar of American Romanticism, William Cullen Bryant’s greatest muse was the beauty of the natural world. His idyllic verse of...

Nov 2, 20212 min read

November 3rd, 2020, marks the 226th anniversary of William Cullen Bryant's birthday. In his 67th year, Bryant wrote The Third of...

Nov 3, 20202 min read

One of the most renowned figures in Latin American literature, Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral, spent the last four years of her life...

Sep 23, 20202 min read

William Cullen Bryant, our library's founder and namesake, held abolitionist views and was instrumental in securing northern votes for...

Jun 9, 20201 min read

Enjoy this digitized version from the Library of Congress of a 1904 illustrated collection of William Cullen Bryant's poetry. LC Catalog...

May 8, 20201 min read

A version of the following article by former LHC Archivist Myrna Sloam was originally published in the November/December 2009 Bryant...

Nov 12, 20095 min read