National Poetry Month cancelled April 2, 2012: [Editor's Note: Note the date: This was an April Fool's joke. National Poetry Month is alive and well. Visit the Academy of American Poets for details.] CHICAGO, APRIL 1—April 2012 will mark the last-ever National Poetry Month. Started in 1996 and honored every April in the United States since then, the promotion—in which publishers, [...] by Stephen Burt

@harriet_poetry January 10, 2012: Guess who's taking over for Dorothea Lasky on Harriet's Twitter feed? C'mon, GUESS! No. Not Bacarri Rambo. It's Eric Baus! #CheckItOut. by Harriet Staff

The Poetry Foundation’s most-read articles of 2011 December 19, 2011: 10. "Haiku Economics" by Stephen T. Ziliak I’m an economist. Yet poetry is my first stop on the way to invention—discovery of metaphors. No matter the audience, a model is a metaphor. Not every economist understands that. Poetry can fill the gap between reason and emotion, adding feelings to economics. 9. "In Praise of Promiscuous [...] by Harriet Staff

Harriet Reading Series Part II: Kenneth Goldsmith’s “Career in Poetry” November 28, 2011: Photo courtesy of Lawrence Schwartzwald Friday, December 16th at 7pm, poet, DJ, essayist, rabble-rouser and Ubuweb Roi Kenneth Goldsmith will present “My Career in Poetry or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institution" here at the Poetry Foundation at 61 W. Superior St. in Chicago. As anyone who has spent time on Harriet [...] by Harriet Staff

Jim Behrle, Ron Silliman, minor league baseball, and monkeys riding border collies September 21, 2011: Read all about it here in a little thing we like to call "Yo-Yos with Celery." A taste: Ron: I am quite amazed by who reads my blog. And the kind of readership it gets. I get, for example, a lot of readers who are strictly into haiku. There is a whole haiku community in North America that normally is not treated seriously, but in fact [...] by Harriet Staff

Shark attacks, urban uprisings, floods, giant robots, and the black automaton invade Chicago September 6, 2011: Douglas Kearney--poet, performer, librettist, Cave Canem fellow, author of Fear, Some and The Black Automaton--will be reading here at the Poetry Foundation on September 23 at 7pm as part of the new Harriet Reading Series. Kearney wrote for us as part of our "Craft Work" series, and he did not disappoint, providing (sometimes scalding, [...] by Harriet Staff

Sylvia Plath is Miss Popularity September 1, 2011: As the school year begins, we're taking stock here at poetryfoundation.org, gathering together our most-read poems, articles, blog posts, and podcasts to put on display for this here Harriet show-and-tell. Yesterday, we looked at the summer's most popular poem, and today, we've set our sights on the most popular feature: Emily Gould's look back [...] by Harriet Staff

Most popular poem of the summer? August 31, 2011: On our site, anyway, the most popular poem of the summer--by FAR-- is this 1952 gem from ee cummings, "[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]." i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it(anywhere i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling) [...] by Harriet Staff

Nikki Giovanni praises poetry and Nancy Pelosi April 18, 2011: Nikki Giovanni will at the Harold Washington Library in Chicago next Saturday in celebration of National Poetry Month. She took a few minutes to talk about her favorite books, poems, and people. What line or poem do you find yourself sharing again and again? Mostly I find folks really like and relate to lines from “Ego Tripping.” I [...] by Poetry Foundation