Canadian Content on Harriet Plummets

By Jason Guriel

With this post, I reach the end of my run at Harriet. Many thanks to the Poetry Foundation for the invitation to blog and to the other bloggers for their comments and to all of the readers. I hope to find more Canadians on Harriet sooner rather than later – or perhaps a portfolio committed to Canadian poetry in some future issue of the print magazine. (At the very least, I predict a good year for Canadians; there are many good collections of poems being published this year, up here, and the Toronto Blue Jays, who are first in the A.L. East, trounced the Yankees soundly last night.)

Comments (13)

On May 13, 2009 at 2:37 pm mearl wrote:

Jason,

I sincerely wish you were not leaving. You have an amazing talent for working levity and depth in the same sentence. What I’ve most enjoyed are your close readings of poems, your humor and your very graceful sense of proportion. It’s been fabulous to read you and to collaborate with you.

We’ll be in touch,

Martin
On May 13, 2009 at 3:54 pm Jason Crane wrote:

What Martin said.

Jason
On May 13, 2009 at 4:59 pm Colin Ward wrote:

Jason,

What Martin said, too. I hope you will remain here in some capacity, preferably as a staffer, and not because I’m a compatriot who understands that “Jays-Yankees” is Canadian for “Armageddon”. I’ve always found yours to be an interesting voice of reason. In any event, I wish you luck in all of your endeavours.

Best regards,

Colin
On May 13, 2009 at 6:46 pm Chuck Godwin wrote:

Jason,
I have enjoyed your posts and look forward to reading your thought provoking work on other blogs. Best.
On May 14, 2009 at 12:29 am Mary Meriam wrote:

We’re all another year
closer to our comeuppances—
the carpenters the cat the gulls
the bees the ghosts and me—

Peter Trower, “As Long As the Wheel Turns Us”

Thanks for all your great posts, Jason.
Mary
On May 14, 2009 at 9:13 am Jason Guriel wrote:

Thanks for these very kind words!
On May 15, 2009 at 9:41 am Annie Finch wrote:

I’ll miss you here Jason but will look forward to reading your htoughts in the future–in Poetry and elsewhere. And, congratulations on your book!
On May 15, 2009 at 6:12 pm Eileen Myles wrote:

Hi Jason,

I also like meeting you here. I hope we meet in the world at some other point. I’ll look for your new work.

Eileen
On May 16, 2009 at 9:22 am Jason Guriel wrote:

Annie and Eileen, thank you!
On May 16, 2009 at 10:20 am Kent Johnson wrote:

Thanks for the posts here and for kicking off the “Negative Reviews” forum, Jason. I’m keeping you to that pint in Toronto.

Kent
On May 17, 2009 at 10:01 am Jason Guriel wrote:

Thanks, Kent, and I’m looking forward to that pint!
On May 18, 2009 at 9:53 pm Cathy Halley wrote:

Jason-
We’re sad to see you go, but hope you’ll come back now and then to chime in when you have a random notion to share with the Harrieteers. Thanks for helping us think about readings and close readings and Canada.
Cathy
On May 19, 2009 at 11:48 am Jason Guriel wrote:

Cathy, thank you, and will do.

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