To Live with Honor is a Journey Without Frontiers March 12, 2010: [audio:http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/To-Live-with-HonorFINAL.mp3] by Sotère Torregian

Teachability, Pedagogy, and Why You Can Easily Find My Book At Used Bookstores March 10, 2010: so some say that poetry is dead because it stays within the academic classroom, overlooking how important the classroom is to creating lifelong poetry readers / writers, as well as how important course adoption is to keeping books alive and relevant and in print. when i design a syllabus, i try to choose books that i think will engage and [...] by Craig Santos Perez

Women’s History Month: A Salute March 10, 2010: [audio:http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/A-Salute-to-Women.mp3] by Sotère Torregian

To Sonnet, to Son-net, Tuscon Net March 9, 2010: Recently Geist Magazine, one of the great Canadian magazines, announced a contest for the best "Jackpine Sonnet." The Jackpine sonnet was named by Canadian poet Milton Acorn. It's a fairly regular sonnet that aims for the traditional 14 lines, each line con­tain­ing 7 to 13 syl­la­bles, but, in Acorn’s words, “If your son­net cuts [...] by Sina Queyras

A Response to the Comments March 8, 2010: [audio:http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Comments-FINAL.mp3] by Sotère Torregian

Conference Spotlight: Native American Literature Symposium March 8, 2010: just returned from a weekend in albuquerque where i attended the Native American Literature Symposium (NALS), which is "organized by an independent group of indigenous scholars committed to making a place where Native voices can be heard." the symposium was held at the Isleta Casino & Resort (apparently, this symposium has been held at [...] by Craig Santos Perez

Jane Sprague’s The Port of Los Angeles March 7, 2010: In the summer of 2008, I stayed with Jane Sprague and her family in Long Beach, California, where I gave a reading with Rob Halpern for Sprague’s series, Long Beach Notebook. Memorable during the trip was driving with Sprague to LA and passing the ports, which Sprague schooled me about. In LA, Sprague conveyed a comparable knowledge about the [...] by Thom Donovan

Marjorie Perloff Picks UbuWeb’s Top Ten for March 2010 March 7, 2010: Photo: Emma Bee Bernstein 1. Ernst Jandl, Bist eulen? 2. William Kentridge - Stereoscope 3. Samuel Beckett - Quadrat 1+2 4. Cheryl Donegan - Refuses 5. VerbiVocoVisual Concrete Poetry and Music (1956-1970) 6. Merce Cunningham - Points in Space (1986) 7. Robert Smithson and Nancy Holt - Mono Lake 8. Caroline Bergvall, Via and [...] by Kenneth Goldsmith

Poetry podcasts, online resources, oh and introducing Canada a wee bit more March 6, 2010: There may not be much poetry to read on my iPod, but there is a lot of poetry to listen to. So, if you're a gym rat, you can take a variety of poetic journeys ranging from recorded readings, to discussions of poetry, to lectures. This is the upside to all of our technological upheaval. At least one of them. I'll offer a few of my favourite [...] by Sina Queyras

Chapbook Spotlight: Calaveras March 3, 2010: i heart chapbooks, especially chapbooks made with love. a new project that i am excited about is Calaveras, edited by sara mumolo & alisa heinzman. their first journal is quite innovative: it includes a series of 7 chapbooks (featuring poetry, essays, and interviews from 27 aesthetically and culturally diverse writers), wrapped together in [...] by Craig Santos Perez