Blogs & Podcasts

Find early literacy tips and children's books on the Children's Blog. Discover your next great read on the Books Movies Music Blog. Dig into Nashville history with the Community History Blog. Listen to stories, history, and culture on NPL Podcasts. Please see this Note for Readers.

A handwritten letter from Nashville, Tennessee, dated 1933, featuring elegant cursive script on aged, folded paper.
With extra time during a month of quarantine, it’s a good opportunity to preserve family ephemera. This blog post, contributed by my coworker Christine Irizarry, highlights the importance of family letters and offers tips on preserving family records.
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Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market"

Christina Rossetti's poem Goblin Market is one of her best known. Although it is ostensibly about two sisters' misadventures with goblins, critics have interpreted the piece in a variety of ways, seeing it as an allegory about temptation and salvation, a commentary on Victorian gender roles and female agency, and a work about erotic desire and social redemption.

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Poetry - Christina Rossetti

Christina Georgina Rossetti, born on December 5, 1830, was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems. We begin today with a selection of devotional poems, then turn our attentions toward other topics—love, jealousy, and the burgeoning world of Victorian society.

Couple embracing under a red umbrella near the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
I know some people like to read a book while they're on vacation that's set in their traveled-to destination. I've strived to do that, but haven't always been successful. Therefore, the recommended books below are a mix of what I have read and what I'm hoping to read someday.