Category - NEHS Director

World Poetry Day 2023

World Poetry Day exists to honor poets; revive oral traditions of poetry recitals; promote the reading, writing, and teaching of poetry; foster the convergence...

Put NEHS on Your Secure Senders List

Are you missing out on our biweekly NEHSXpress newsletters and NEHS Museletter blog posts? Did you receive our Common Reader 2024 survey? Do you know about our...

Is it Important to Clean Out Your Bookcase?

Where do you stand? Do you de-clutter and get rid of books that you haven’t read for a while, or do you try to keep your collection complete—hopefully...

Loving Literature in Latin America

Latin American readers dip into very few books every year. Lectupedia calculates that the average Latin American reads just two books each year, in comparison...

NEHS Updates

NEHSXpress has been published monthly over the summer. This edition is the last of those publications; starting August 31, NEHSXpress will resume with regular...

Thank you—and Farewell

As the school year draws to a close and my retirement begins, I want to take this moment to thank everyone involved in NEHS: my colleagues in the Central...

NEHS Director Position

As previously announced, Dave Wendelin will retire from his position as Director of NEHS effective May 31, 2022. While he will be helping with transition...

National Poetry Month

April is National Poetry Month, a celebration of the written word organized by the Academy of American Poets. National Poetry Month “reminds the public...