Double Change: UK & American Poets in Paris June 28, 2011: Double Change, a non-profit organization based in Paris that looks "to discover new poets and rediscover poets in expanded bi-national contexts; and to represent in our forums poets and other artists who are in dialogue with their texts," also has a website that features both a poetry magazine and a film archive. They've just posted some terrific [...] by Harriet Staff

100 Thousand Poets for Change: The Chicago Arm June 27, 2011: As we previously reported, Michael Rothenberg's 100 Thousand Poets for Change is set for September 24th. Here is a quick follow-up on the city of Chicago's involvement. Introducing Bad Date America, spearheaded by Chicago poets Larry Sawyer and Lina Ramona Vitkauskas, who for their contribution ask Chicago poets to "Go on a date with America." [...] by Harriet Staff

Historian Uncovers Details of Federico García Lorca’s Last Hours June 27, 2011: The final hours of the executed poet Federico García Lorca's life have become known, reports The Guardian. A local historian from the southern city of Granada, Miguel Caballero Pérez, claims to have found Lorca's real grave--and after three years of sifting through police and military archives, he has "identified the half-dozen career [...] by Harriet Staff

Fiona Templeton and Environmental Theater June 27, 2011: Douglas Messerli, writer and publisher of Green Integer, has posted on his US Theater blog many poetic playscripts, reviews, and articles surrounding avant-garde and contemporary theater-making--the contents include a number of essays by Messerli himself (who co-edited, with Mac Wellman, From the Other Side of the Century II: A New American Drama [...] by Harriet Staff

Uh-Oh Plutonium! + The Bloody Brood June 27, 2011: Peter Falk has passed away, as you've probably heard by now. Maybe you watched Wings of Desire or A Woman Under the Influence over the weekend? Those are some of the strongest of his poetic turns, if you ask us. But also! Let us lend your Monday eyes and ears to Falk's screen debut (!), The Bloody Brood, in which he plays Nico, a small-time [...] by Harriet Staff

The Week We Talked To Strangers June 24, 2011: Who says people don’t know how to communicate anymore? Not us – we’re too busy listening! Two obvious highlights this week on Harriet were our two killer interviews: A long, revealing chat with the braintrust behind Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative and Garret Caples’s freewheeling rap session with two Bay Area [...] by Harriet Staff

The new new thinking June 24, 2011: Fall Higher, the latest collection of poems from Dean Young, rises to number 3 on this week’s contemporary best seller list (the cherry on the top of which is, as ever, Billy Collins). The New York Times (fancy!) called Fall Higher “a thicket of irresistible first lines.” The Los Angeles Times (schmancy!) uncovered the connection between one [...] by Harriet Staff

A Perfect Storm: Save St. Mark’s Bookshop! June 24, 2011: Save St. Mark's! Is this a nightmare?! Pretty much. The blogger from Vanishing New York recently saw this poster up in the window at New York's St. Mark's Bookshop, and an article in The Villager is confirming concern that the store--beloved by poets, writers, scholars, and artists--is not doing well: The current economic downturn [...] by Harriet Staff

Keep an Eye on the Frank Stanford Feature in Fulcrum #7 June 24, 2011: We'd love to direct your attention to the new, seventh issue of Fulcrum: An Annual of Poetry and Aesthetics (that's right, annual), edited in Cambridge, MA by Stephen Sturgeon, with Philip Nikolayev and Katia Kapovich. At 629 pages (don't worry, about 13 of those are contributor notes, you could skip em), it's chock full of marvelous work, [...] by Harriet Staff

To Survive, Bookstores Begin Charging Admission for Readings June 23, 2011: Sometimes it feels like we're just watching The Little Shop on the Corner over and over. The New York Times reports that independent bookstores across the U.S. are starting to charge admission for events, particularly for readings. It's nothing too new, if you're used to attending readings at non-profits, for instance, but the idea that it might [...] by Harriet Staff