# Poet Laureate Kay Ryan's Farewell Reading

Poet Laureate Kay Ryan concludes her second and final term as Poet Laureate at the Library of Congress with a reading from her newest volume of poetry "The Best of It: New and Selected Poems," published in March 2010. During Ryan's highly successful two-year tenure as the 16th Poet Laureate of the United States, she launched "Poetry for the Mind's Joy," a project that focuses on the poetry being written by community college students.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2010
- By: Library Of Congress
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688468/)
- 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)

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