# Bicentennial Symposium: Poetry & the American People

As part of the celebration of its bicentennial celebration, the Library sponsored a symposium, "Poetry and the American People: Reading, Voice and Publication in the 19th and 20th Centuries" featuring a number of distinguished speakers--including past Poet Laureates--followed by an evening reading by Robert Pinsky and W.S. Merwin.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2000
- By: Library Of Congress. Literary Initiatives Office
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2020720023/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/loc/2020720023?play=1)