Say you, say me, SASE May 19, 2011: Do you want to know entirely too much about the magazines you send your poems to? You're in luck! Duotrope's Digest, "an award-winning, free (sort of) writer's resource listing over 3400 current Fiction and Poetry publications"  gathers data from writers on everything from response times to acceptance rates to whether or not a certain magazine [...] by Harriet Staff

The Death of the Text: Kenneth Goldsmith at the White House May 19, 2011: Who: Kenneth Goldsmith What: The White House Poetry Reading When: Wendesday, May 11, 2011 Where: Washington D.C. “Open Door” features audio, video, and online media to document dynamic interactions between poetry and its audience. “Open Door” showcases performance, scholarship, and engagement outside the usual boundaries of [...] by Vanessa Place

Bob Dylan at 70! May 19, 2011: If he makes it through the Rapture, Bob Dylan will be turning 70 on Tuesday, and the The New York Times is celebrating with a little diddy bout how Film Forum in New York will be showing the documentaries Don't Look Back and The Other Side of The Mirror (which follows Dylan and Joan Baez through the Newport Folk Festival) for the occasion. For [...] by Harriet Staff

Dot Devota and The Dragonfly May 19, 2011: The Dragonfly (Chelsea Editions Books), by Amelia Rosselli, is a collection of poems from 1953 to 1981 that has been recently translated into English by Giuseppe Leporace and Deborah Woodard. First thing, an excerpt: Removing the ancient angels from their pedestals of piety, removing the ancient angels from their pedestal of pride, and [...] by Harriet Staff

A Show & Tell w/Art Chantry May 18, 2011: Poetry magazine's May 2011 cover artist Art Chantry is most known for his poster art, but this month Poetry and Harriet readers get something more. We have Chantry's cover homage, “A Portrait of Video Art Pioneer and Fluxus Member Nam June Paik,” for one. And after e-mailing with Chantry about the piece and his recent writing, he turned [...] by Fred Sasaki

Louder Than A Bomb opens in NYC, raises questions May 18, 2011: Louder Than A Bomb, a documentary about the nation’s largest youth poetry slam, opens today in New York (and is moving across the country afterward). The film follows the trek of four teams of Chicago teens as they prepare for the penultimate competition in 2008. It “reflects their tempestuous lives, exploring the ways writing shapes their [...] by Harriet Staff

Charles Simic: “I don’t know of anything more disheartening than the sight of a shut down library” May 18, 2011: Writing for The New York Review of Books, Charles Simic looks out across the depressing cultural landscape as libraries close from coast to coast. It's not just the state and local budgets to blame — it's the indifference. This isn't unique to libraries, as Simic notes, but it hits especially hard when the institutions on the chopping block are [...] by Harriet Staff

The Reliquarium Awaits You May 18, 2011: The spring parties just don't stop! This time, head over on May 21 to Small Press Traffic in San Francisco for THE RELIQUARIUM, an auction, "end of times dance party," "reenactments from scenes of the end of the world," mucho drinking and the "co-generation of a literary time capsule." (That must mean readings/recordings/performances?) What we [...] by Harriet Staff

Peter Seaton on HTMLGIANT May 18, 2011: "Because we may be it we remain. We feel we are aware we tend to think as if to keep it from rising too rapidly we see them, their rising movement through it, their ascent as it reaches this point we could move, we would have a surface as flat as the exposed beams and rafters of the roof. We are also the space we find we seek relief [...] by Harriet Staff

“Children’s book for adults” ransacks bestseller list with help from pirates May 17, 2011: You might not be able to read the bedtime story Go the Fuck to Sleep to your children, but you can certainly read them the reassuring tale in The Bay Citizen about how a bunch of PDF pirates illicitly propelled the book to Amazon's number one bestseller before it was even published. Once upon a time, the kingdoms of the RIAA and the MPAA waged [...] by Harriet Staff