Happy New Year January 5, 2010: [audio:http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Sotere1.mp3] by Sotère Torregian

Begin Anywhere January 5, 2010: But where is anywhere, damn it? I have been thinking and making notes toward posts for Harriet for a few days now, but it’s never easy to begin a project. It took nearly a year for me to get past the first two posts on my own blog, though once I got the hang of it the habit was/is hard to break. So while carrying on isn’t a problem, beginning [...] by Sina Queyras

Small talk January 5, 2010: "Ah, day by swift malignant day / A window full of ancient things, and while / Forth from din, I wave the visible world away" (more...) by Edwin Torres

“Where Have All the Bloggers Gone January 4, 2010: Gone to Facebook every one / When will they ever learn / When will they ever learn" it's true, facebook killed the blogger star. i started blogging in the last semester of my MFA at the uni of san francisco because the prof for American Poetry & Poetics, Rob Halpern, had us comment & post on a class blog and i just fell in love with the [...] by Craig Santos Perez

The New Year’s New Harrieteers January 4, 2010: As we get settled in this new year, we are pleased to welcome a new round of Harriet bloggers. While we'll still host posts from Anselm, Edwin, Melissa, John, and Amber in the coming weeks, we'll also be hearing from Sina Queyras, Thom Donovan, Bhanu Kapil, Fred Moten, Sotère Torregian, and Craig Santos Perez, all wonderfully astute poets and [...] by Poetry Foundation

Resolutions January 3, 2010: I started making New Year's resolutions when I spent some time teaching in Rockview Maximum Security Prison, outside State College, PA. While teaching an extension course for Penn State (back then I joked I was teaching at Penn State and the state pen), I read a lot of prison narratives and found one overwhelming commonality: the convicts who [...] by John S. O'Connor

Santiago Sierra: Radical Cruelty and Second Reflection January 3, 2010:   [caption id="attachment_7518" align="alignnone" width="340" caption="photo-document of "160 CM LINE TATTOOED ON 4 PEOPLE," El Gallo Arte Contemporáneo. Salamanca, Spain. December 2000"][/caption] I spent the good part of the day yesterday brainstorming for two classes I will teach in the spring, the first on ecology and [...] by Thom Donovan

Slavery — Then and Now January 2, 2010: Let's say you don't take the North Pole worskshop to be a metaphor for the sweat-shop oppression of slighted people everywhere. Fine, have it your way. (more...) by John S. O'Connor