Libryrinths April 20, 2011: The library I frequented when I was a little girl still looks much like it did in the 1970s and 80s. I'd like to revisit it someday, browsing the children's stacks where I found and lost so many stories. I say lost because, though no one ever speaks of it (would it be unjust or disloyal to my favorite institution?), the books one borrows and [...] by Ange Mlinko

The Phoneme Choir at St. Mark’s Poetry Project April 20, 2011: This past Friday at St. Mark's Church I attended choreographer Daria Fain's and poet-designer Robert Kocik's performance of "Re-English," a work they have conceived and directed with their Phoneme Choir. The Phoneme Choir participants on Friday night included many from the chorus' previous performances at Governor's Island--for their Lower [...] by Thom Donovan

This poetry thing goes both ways, or many ways at once April 20, 2011: The poet a.rawlings has been connecting students up with the contemporary poets they are reading. High school students that is. Scott Griffin, founder of the lucrative Griffin Prize for Poetry has begun a program that encourages high school students to memorize poetry and perform it, vying for a new prize. Over on Lemon Hound, I have invited a [...] by Sina Queyras

Je t’aime, asshole: Notes Towards a European Ghazal April 20, 2011: Typed up my post, then it vanished.  An account of meeting Agha Shahid Ali. I wrote it on my home blog, pressed the wrong key and it was gone.  Then I came here, wrote it out again, from scratch - what the poet said at night, on a loading dock at Wells College, about the ghazal - and now, once again, it is gone.  Where did it go? Perhaps [...] by Bhanu Kapil

Allow me to lace these lyrical dutches ( to Kathleen) April 20, 2011: Gah this month's posts from everyone have been so great!  I only wish I could reply directly to someone's topic, as apposed to a new post as a reply.  Maybe the folks at Harriet could do that on the next round.  I'd love to be able to do that. Everything you said Kathleen is spot-the-heck-on, which is why I ended my post by saying that [...] by Amber Tamblyn

The natural April 20, 2011: Rachel Zucker’s April 1st post asking fellow Harrietiers (and others) if they wanted their poetry to be timely or timeless generated a number of interesting responses. Most seem to want to be at least partly on the side of timely. (One result of 9/11 is that it rendered the last of the timeless poets obsolete.) More precisely, most respondents [...] by Alan Gilbert

The Text Festival (Part 1) April 19, 2011: Tony Trehy (the author of 50 Heads) is curating the Text Festival, an exhibition that opens at the Bury Art Gallery in Manchester (UK) on April 29, during the weekend of the Royal Wedding. (more...) by Christian Bök

Adventures in Parenting: Metaphor, Painting and Narrative for Pre-Schoolers April 19, 2011: (Separated at birth?) My four-year old loves metaphor, although she says she loves simile better than “plain metaphor” because she likes the “like” in a simile. She first became aware of metaphor when in The Berenstain Bears Go Trick or Treating, light “stabs” out of a spooky house in the woods. Ever since she will stop [...] by Daisy Fried

Facts and Truth April 19, 2011: Recently I have been contemplating and speaking about the relationship between truth and fact. Most people, I realize, do not make a distinction between these two things. Much of my talking lately has been with people who are not necessarily a part of the world of poetry — people, I believe, who would at least give lip-service to the concept of [...] by Kwame Dawes

All the ladies in the place with style and grace April 19, 2011: Amber Tamblyn, thank you for the thoughtful (and fun to read — Tina Fey! fart jokes! pizza!) response to my questions about mission-driven presses. To answer super-briefly your points that “emphasis on a specific gender has always felt, to me, like some sort of weird reversed institutionalized sexism,” and your question “If we are [...] by Kathleen Rooney