Martin Luther King Jr. Day January 18, 2010: [audio:http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/On-the-Eve-of-Martin-Luther-King-DayFINAL.mp3] by Sotère Torregian

Who’s Afraid of Belinda Blurb? & A Bad Case of Epigraphilia January 18, 2010: (click image to enlarge & read text) publisher b. w. huebsch wasnt. in fact, he wanted to include "the picture of a damsel--languishing, heroic, or coquettish — anyhow, a damsel on the jacket of every novel" (The book above is gelett burgess's "Are you a bromide?"--1906). poor belinda blurb. someone asked me the other day what [...] by Craig Santos Perez

“that borrowed form is already gone/I don’t speak.” January 17, 2010: -- Dolores Dorantes, tr. Jen Hofer, upon whose (Hofer's) knitted spirogyra/amoeba kit I bid at an auction and won; I now wear the longer experimental biological specimen around my neck, which is so wrong, though I've received many compliments. It's a graduated pink. My late morning report is that I wrote to Jen Hofer last night and asked [...] by Bhanu Kapil

Introduction for Fred Moten @ SEGUE January 17, 2010: Two great readings at SEGUE series yesterday, the first by Mónica de la Torre who, with the help of Rob Fitterman (on bullhorn), read/performed a wonderful text evoking a host of bureaucratic/procedural realities after Martin Kippenberger's The Happy Ending of Franz Kafka's "Amerika". Thinking about how to teach Moten's work later this semester [...] by Thom Donovan

So long, Harriet January 16, 2010: The other Harriet -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- says in Uncle Tom's Cabin that "friendships are discovered not made." Joining this blog over the past few months, I discovered (and re-discovered) many new friendships -- like-minded people and especially people who challenged my mind in different ways. As I sign off, I'd like to thank the Poetry [...] by John S. O'Connor

Dénouement de Raquel January 16, 2010: [audio:http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/DenoumentdeRacquelFINAL.mp3] by Sotère Torregian

Slow Blogging January 16, 2010: I have been mulling over what to post here on Harriet, and when. I wanted to mention the passing of PK Page, for one, but she deserves a more well-thought out post than I could do in an hour or two. Then this morning I realized that part of what is making me reluctant to post is not the posts themselves, but the question of how much time I can [...] by Sina Queyras

Desiring Criticism January 15, 2010: I have noticed a lot of interest in criticism—what criticism is, how it should function—at Harriet/Poetry Foundation. And especially interest in the function of ‘negative’ criticism. Throughout the past couple years I have had a few different answers to the question of what criticism does. Or rather, what it can do. Criticism, not unlike [...] by Thom Donovan

Poetic Body Clock January 14, 2010: [audio:http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Poetic-Body-Clock.mp3] by Sotère Torregian

Beltway Poetry January 14, 2010: It’s a good winter for poetry in the nation’s capital. A couple of months after the launch of our D.C. Poetry Tour, our friends at the Beltway Poetry Quarterly—an online lit mag that publishes D.C.-area poets—have begun celebrating their tenth anniversary in style, with a special issue, a poetry reading series, and a print anthology. [...] by Poetry Foundation