As Editor of Broom, Lola Ridge Objected to Stein: “A bladder blown up by many breaths” May 23, 2012: Yesterday we got deeper into Ernest Hemingway's salty annotation of the "Lady Poets," one of whom, "the nearest prototype in her time of the proletarian poet of class conflict," is Lola Ridge. Ridge has had more longevity than most of those women--Factory School republished her book The Ghetto in 2006. It was already pretty much [...] by Harriet Staff

PJ Harvey Is Just One Love Song Among Many for T.S. Eliot May 23, 2012: The Guardian tells us that pop music makers have one thing in common: T.S. Eliot? Eliot would not have loved pop music but pop music loves Eliot. Ninety years after the publication of The Waste Land, he remains the lodestar poet for ambitious songwriters. They rummage through his masterpiece's treasure chest of arresting phrases: the [...] by Harriet Staff

Get Your Tickets for the 2012 Poets Forum May 23, 2012: Here's this, via the Academy of American Poets: Tickets for the 6th annual Poets Forum are now available for purchase! Please visit www.poets.org/poetsforum to purchase tickets online, or call (212)-274-0343 ext. 16 to purchase tickets over the phone. This year's Poets Forum will take place on October 18-20 in New York City. In addition to [...] by Harriet Staff

Interview with Joshua Edwards May 23, 2012: Joshua Edwards, editor of Canarium Books and author of Campeche, took part in this interview over at the Ploughshares blog. Here's a small slice: -Does editing ever impede your own writing? I imagine you are busy. Do you have a day job and if so, what is it? I’m obsessive about editing, so it likely takes up a bit of mind space [...] by Harriet Staff

Spirit Message from the Shakers May 23, 2012: Let us know if you can decode this one. No, really. Gorgeous spirit message from the Shaker manuscript collection, 1780-1952, sourced from the NYPL Digital Gallery. Thanks to biblioklept for the find. by Harriet Staff

SPD Has a Reading Room! And a Video! May 23, 2012: Check it out! A video for Small Press Distribution's new reading room! by Harriet Staff

The Met Adds to Stein Wartime Discourse… May 23, 2012: First, wow: "After Gertrude [Stein]'s friend Mabel Weeks heard [Four Saints in Three Acts] performed by Virgil Thomson...she opined, 'It would finish opera just as Picasso had finished oil painting.'" More from the website of The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A few months [before the premiere in February 1934], the director of the museum, [...] by Harriet Staff

Exhibition Honoring Elizabeth Kray and Stanley Kunitz May 23, 2012: Check out this exhibition via Poets House. A brief description: Poets House is proud to launch Founding Friendships: Celebrating the Legacies of Elizabeth Kray and Stanley Kunitz, an unparalleled exhibition of art works by leading post-war artists, as well as archival material by major poets. The show gives visitors a glimpse into [...] by Harriet Staff

It’s About Time: An Andrew Crozier Reader May 22, 2012: "This comprehensive gathering together of the poetry and prose of one of the key figures of non-mainstream British poetry is long-overdue," writes Matt Merritt for Magma Poetry about An Andrew Crozier Reader, a 276-page collection published by Carcanet this March and edited by Ian Brinton. Andrew Crozier (1943-2008) was a major presence for [...] by Harriet Staff

Poetry of the Taliban May 22, 2012: We posted recently about Bin Laden the poetry scholar. Now comes this story about a collection of Taliban poetry. Via CNN: A controversial new book has hit shelves in Great Britain that contains poetry written by members of the group or authors who seem quite romantically devoted to it. It's titled, appropriately enough, "Poetry of the [...] by Harriet Staff