News Release

Pearl Cleage, the nationally recognized playwright, poet, novelist, social activist and Atlanta resident, has placed her papers at Emory University’s Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library. The collection is now open to researchers.

Treasures from the archive of the late poet Lucille Clifton, including rare unpublished poems and some of her earliest children’s books, will be featured in upcoming exhibitions from the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL) at Emory University.

Robert W. Woodruff Library is welcoming Emory’s 1,300 new students with three fun and helpful activities that will familiarize them with the resources and services they’ll come to rely on during their Emory years.

Emory University Professor Natasha Trethewey, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who was recently appointed the 19th U.S. Poet Laureate, will serve as keynote speaker for the 7th annual AJC Decatur Book Festival. *** UPDATE: Tickets are no longer available for this event. ***

Natasha Trethewey, Emory University professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, has been named Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2012-2013 by Librarian of Congress James H. Billington.

A rare collection of nearly 10,000 photographs depicting African American life from the late 19th and early 20th centuries has been acquired by Emory University’s Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library (MARBL) from photo collector Robert Langmuir of Philadelphia.

The archive of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) opened to researchers and the public at Emory University’s Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL) on May 1.