Yogi Tea January 9, 2010: [audio:http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Sotere-3.5.mp3] by Sotère Torregian

Dispatch from the 2010 Key West Literary Seminar January 9, 2010: Greetings from the 28th annual Key West Literary Seminar, which is dedicated to poetry this year and honors Richard Wilbur. I'm filing this post from a mobile device that tried to auto-correct the words "Key West" into "awestruck." It's as if my smartphone knows how I feel about being in the midst of so many gifted poets. My status update on [...] by Catherine Halley

Given Giving January 8, 2010: [audio:http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Sotere3.mp3] by Sotère Torregian

hey everybody January 8, 2010: I froze up pretty hard in the face of this blog. I read them all the time but this is the first one I’ve written. I keep a journal, but I keep it to myself, and this one is supposed to be public, supposed to be given away, whether anyone wants it or not, because even if you read it you might not want it, and I didn’t know if I could pull off [...] by Fred Moten

Beethoven’s Birthday January 7, 2010: [audio:http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Beethovens-Birthday.mp3] by Sotère Torregian

what’s cooking at poets house January 7, 2010: I like the name “Poets House” because—while probably intended to read as the possessive Poets’ House—the phrase instead asserts something rather nice about poets. Poets don't just browse and carouse: they house. And maybe, someday, they’ll house me. (more...) by Abigail Deutsch

Michael Haneke: Filmmaker of Bad Faith January 6, 2010: [caption id="attachment_7704" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="angel of mercy, the pastor's son offers him a bird"][/caption] This past weekend I saw Austrian director Michael Haneke’s newest film, The White Ribbon. Seeing any film by Haneke I go to it with a mild feeling of dread. His films are hard to watch; they often engage [...] by Thom Donovan

‘Afro Picks,’ Publisher’s Weekly, & the Racialized Pun January 6, 2010: thx to all who commented on my first post here, & to all the well wishes i received thru facebook, email, & blog. however, i don't appreciate all the negative emails i've received from those saying i 'sold out' by joining 'the foundation.' nor do i appreciate those even purer purists who tell me i should stop blogging and focus on the [...] by Craig Santos Perez

Trigger Cuts January 5, 2010: The on-going review-interviews taking place over at Lemon Hound have my attention at the moment (I’m one of the interviewees, an admission that I suppose qualifies as full disclosure here if you believe such a thing exists in the demi-world of warm soft fact), (more...) by Anselm Berrigan

The Narrative Arc of a Semester January 5, 2010: One year I hung a giant sheet of pink butcher paper outside the Writing Center with an invitation for people to jot down thoughts of the day as they walked by. (I guess it was sort of a Stone Age, pre-Twitter feed, come to think of it). The responses were amazing to me and followed a pattern throughout the term that I believe to be nearly [...] by John S. O'Connor