Top of page

Notice
Special holiday hours in effect, December 2025 through January 2026. More information.

Film, Video U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze Opening Reading

Transcript: TEXT

About this Item

Title

  • U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze Opening Reading

Summary

  • Award-winning poet Arthur Sze gave his inaugural reading as the 25th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress. The historic reading marked the beginning of Sze’s laureateship.

Event Date

  • Thursday, December 11, 2025

Running Time

  • 57 minutes, 16 seconds

Online Format

  • image
  • online text
  • video

Rights & Access

While the Library of Congress created most of the videos in this collection, they include copyrighted materials that the Library has permission from rightsholders to present.  Rights assessment is your responsibility.  The written permission of the copyright owners in materials not in the public domain is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use of protected items beyond that allowed by fair use or other statutory exemptions. There may also be content that is protected under the copyright or neighboring-rights laws of other nations.  Permissions may additionally be required from holders of other rights (such as publicity and/or privacy rights). Whenever possible, we provide information that we have about copyright owners and related matters in the catalog records, finding aids and other texts that accompany collections. However, the information we have may not be accurate or complete.

More about Copyright and other Restrictions

For guidance about compiling full citations consult Citing Primary Sources.

Credit Line: Library of Congress

Cite This Item

Citations are generated automatically from bibliographic data as a convenience, and may not be complete or accurate.

Chicago citation style:

U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze Opening Reading. 2025. Video. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/video-11242/.

APA citation style:

(2025) U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze Opening Reading. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/video-11242/.

MLA citation style:

U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze Opening Reading. 2025. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/video-11242/>.