Poetry Bookshop March 3, 2008: Hello Harriet readers! Just a quick alumni news flash. In this time of dying bookstores, here’s a bright spot: a poetry bookshop in Beacon, NY called Hermitage. It opened in December, “focusing primarily on small press publishing in American poetry between the 1950’s to 1970’s.” If you’re looking for The Green Lake Is Awake or The [...] by Ange Mlinko

Nights on Planet Earth March 3, 2008: Night is more complicated than day, it is the home of dreams, sleep, shadowy eroticism. (more...) by Don Share

This Is Just to Say March 1, 2008: I have posted a revised and much longer version of my Harriet post on "post-avant-garde" poetry, now titled "Defining Post-Avant-Garde Poetry," on my own blog, to be found here. In this extended version of the piece I discuss various writers' conceptions of the phenomenon I address, including Paul Hoover's new modernism, Stephen Burt's [...] by Reginald Shepherd

Pictures I Didn’t Take and Pictures I Did March 1, 2008: I stopped taking pictures on trips when I realized I could remember very little except what I took pictures of. But on our honeymoon in Rome in 2000, I had a couple of disposable cameras left over from our wedding. I took pictures of ragtop Fiat 500s: Ape trucks: And motorscooters with roofs, which I saw for the first time that trip: (more...) by Daisy Fried