A new publishing project: OccuPoetry! November 21, 2011: This just in! The Occupy Movement has a new friend in poetry: OccuPoetry! Founded and edited by UC Davis digital humanities specialist Phillip Barron and Katy Ryan, an associate professor of English at West Virginia University, OccuPoetry is a poetry project that will--three times weekly!--publish poetry about economic justice/injustice, greed, [...] by Harriet Staff

Cabinet Talks to Sianne Ngai About States of Weakness! November 21, 2011: Poet, professor, scholar, and cuteness expert Sianne Ngai has been interviewed for Cabinet Magazine--lucky us! Ngai is "interested in states of weakness: in 'minor' or non-cathartic feelings that index situations of suspended agency; in trivial aesthetic categories grounded in ambivalent or even explicitly contradictory feelings." "Cuteness is [...] by Harriet Staff

The National Student Poets Program November 21, 2011: From this Washington Post article: Michelle Obama and the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities are helping to create a new award honoring five outstanding high school poets who will serve as literary ambassadors nationwide. The National Student Poets Program is being announced Monday. The young poet laureates will be chosen [...] by Harriet Staff

Rage Against The Machine Frontman Pens a Poem for OWS November 21, 2011: Zack De La Rocha wrote a poem for the Occupy Wall Street Movement, and we have a link to it, thanks to the folks at TwentyFourBit. Come widdit now! by Harriet Staff

Celebrating Jerome Rothenberg’s 80th Birthday November 21, 2011: Jacket2 gives the details of a grand celebration in honor of Jerome Rothenberg's 80th birthday. Chiggity-check it: Friday, December 9 Martin E. Segal Theater CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue (diagonally across from the Empire State Building) 6pm (sharp) to about 9:30pm Poet, translator, editor, anthologist, Jerome [...] by Harriet Staff

Did You Miss The Song of Lunch? Watch In Its Entirety Here November 21, 2011: We reported on this short film starring Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman last year, and now, in case you missed it, you can watch it! Time has it here, and PBS has it here. by Harriet Staff

Astronaut Ode Inserted into Congressional Record November 21, 2011: According to this Washington Post article, Albert Carey Caswell, "a longtime member of the Capitol guide service, (who) has been contributing dozens of poems to the official record of Congress for years," is at it again, this time penning an ode to John Glenn, Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins: Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) [...] by Harriet Staff

Robert Hass on OWS Berkeley November 21, 2011: Robert Hass, who, among many others, has had terrible run-ins with the police at various Occupy Movements around the country, wrote this piece about his Berkeley experience for the New York Times. LIFE, I found myself thinking as a line of Alameda County deputy sheriffs in Darth Vader riot gear formed a cordon in front of me on a recent [...] by Harriet Staff

The Week Poets Walked Among Us November 18, 2011: Poets. Poetry insiders. Poetry buffs. You don’t always notice them, but they are out there, crossing the street, buying coffee, traveling incognito. They resist and occupy. This week continues to be a nail-biter for the radical librarians in Zuccotti Park, as the Occupy Wall Street reckons with Mayor Bloomberg and the NYPD. But the [...] by Harriet Staff

OWS Library Updates: Bloomberg Attends NYPL Gala, Is Called On to Replace Damaged Books, People’s Library Goes Mobile November 18, 2011: Despite near-constant setbacks, the OWS Library is still truckin. Poet and translator Ian Dreiblatt stopped by to help out yesterday, and had this to say about the situation: [T]hey're driving the library folks crazy. this morning the brookfield trolls had told them they couldn't bring books in without a cart to roll them in. the [...] by Harriet Staff