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Through the interactive Traveling Stanzas exhibit, attendees can create poetry using the Library of Congress’s primary source materials, including Abraham Lincoln’s draft of a bill abolishing slavery from 1849 and Thomas Jefferson’s 1803 instructions to Meriwether Lewis for the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Attendees can share the poems digitally, on video, or even print out a postcard! This exhibit is a collaboration with the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University and the Library of Congress’s Manuscript and Rare Book and Special Collections Divisions and the Interpretive Programs Office.