The Poetry Foundation’s 2012 Staff Picks December 19, 2012: As we check off the final days of the year, we've been posting a number of "best of 2012" lists on Harriet. So we figure it's about time we ponied up and made one of our own. As with most years, we faced the daunting task of selecting great work from shelves upon shelves of great work. Here, then, in no particular order, are some of our staff's [...] by Harriet Staff

New to the Archive October 23, 2012: If you haven't cracked into the online archive in a few weeks to see what's new, you're in for a real treat now. In addition to all the poems from the October issue of Poetry, marking 100 years of continuous publication, we've added poems by a number of contemporary poets. To start with, Brandon Brown debuts in the archive with a sampling [...] by Harriet Staff

New to the Archive September 25, 2012: This week we're offering some choice gems newly added to our online archive. In the news, we've been hearing a good deal about a renaissance of sorts in Canadian poetry. Sure, we're excited about the new stuff—but we're also adding work by Canadian poets who have been at it for decades. Case in point, this grouping of poems by Steve [...] by Harriet Staff

New to the Archive September 12, 2012: After a late-summer hiatus from our online archive reporting, we're back with a hefty load of new poems we've added recently. Back in March Cedar Sigo reminded us how great Bob Kaufman's poetry is. So we've dropped these three poems by the Beat poet into the archive. Poems of jazz, poems of terror. With all the talk about space, the [...] by Harriet Staff

New to the Archive July 13, 2012: This summer we’ve been gathering a smattering of poems to bulk up our online archive. For your reading pleasure, be sure to check out these poems by two Irish poets: Ciarán Carson and Rita Ann Higgins. Next, proceed to this set of poems from Sasha Steensen’s book, The Method. And please, greet the mole guests. Thank you. While [...] by Harriet Staff

New to the Archive May 25, 2012: We’re shoring up a whole bunch of goodness this week as we dip into the online archive to see what’s new. First up, we have two from the tome—from Ron Silliman’s The Alphabet, parts I and XII of the long poem, “You.” This taste is maybe 1/1000 of the entire book, but it’s a good taste nevertheless. Moving on, we’d like to [...] by Harriet Staff

New to the Archive May 1, 2012: You may not know this but you're sitting on a treasure trove of poetry! Yes, so much so that sometimes it feels like you need a map to navigate all the goodness. So going forward, Harriet will be occasionally tipping off our readers to some of the fabulous new additions to our online archive. For starters, we've recently added an ample [...] by Harriet Staff

@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