Poetry Foundation

The New Year’s New Harrieteers

As we get settled in this new year, we are pleased to welcome a new round of Harriet bloggers. While we’ll still host posts from Anselm, Edwin, Melissa, John, and Amber in the coming weeks, we’ll also be hearing from Sina Queyras, Thom Donovan, Bhanu Kapil, Fred Moten, Sotère Torregian, and Craig Santos Perez, all wonderfully astute poets and critics.

We’re lucky to have them here for the start of the new year and the new decade.

Please check out their full bios after the jump and join us in wishing them a warm welcome.

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Poetry Foundation

Dear Readers

2009 has been quite a year for Harriet.  The blog has published hundreds of posts by scores of writers, received thousands of comments, and been visited by a record number of readers.  This fall our traffic has been at an all-time high, and so it appears that the trend is continuing upwards.  We’d like to offer our sincere thanks to everyone who has helped make the space what it is.  We hope that the new year brings more glad tidings, comments, visitors, and, of course, engaging discussion.

As we’ve noted before, the blog is an on-going experiment, and we’re constantly looking for ways to improve the experience.  To that end, we’re replacing the like/dislike function in the comments section with a “report this comment” button.  Moving forward, if you find a comment to be off-topic or abusive, please use the “report” button and the Harriet staff will be duly notified.  The general comments policy remains the same.

We appreciate your patience, and we look forward to a new year of fruitful discussion in 2010.

But before we get to the new year, let’s look back once more at the remarkable year that was.  Below, you’ll find the Top 10 most-viewed posts of the past year, along with the Top 10 most-viewed articles of the past year.  As you’ll see, we covered a lot of ground together.  Thank you.

Sincerely,
Catherine Halley and Travis Nichols


The Most-Viewed Posts on Harriet in 2009:

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Travis Nichols

Fall and All

Fall is here, which means ponderous Hollywood movies, funky potpourri, [W]ild [T]urkey, and of course, new bloggers on Harriet!

Today, we say our goodbyes to Joel Brouwer, Rebecca Wolff, and Eileen Myles.  They’ve done a wonderful job here on the blog, and we hope they’ll come back from time to time to share a thought or two.  From everyone here, let me offer a hearty thanks for your dedication and service.  Huzzah!

I know.  It is sad.  But all is not lost!  We still have Barbara Jane Reyes, Abigail Deutsch, and Tonya Foster to help transition us to this new season.  And!  We have five new great bloggers starting, well, right now, today:

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