The Audience is Present (Part II) April 9, 2013: In the last week of March, Nikky Finney and Lizz Wright performed together for a packed auditorium at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.  Nikky opened the evening with a handful of poems drawn from all three of her collections: Rice, The World is Round, and Head Off & Split.  Her poems are long—not in the “long poem” [...] by Evie Shockley

‘Stand Up’ with Cathy Park Hong & Mores McWreath at The New Museum March 21, 2013: In conjunction with the "Stand Up" symposium on March 30, the New Museum is hosting "The Rub," a collaborative online chapbook by Cathy Park Hong and the video artist Mores McWreath. “The Rub” is an e-chapbook of GIFs and haiku that explores shame and failure in stand-up and online comedy. Poems explore the viewer’s obsession with [...] by Harriet Staff

Spend Some ANCIENT EVENINGS Writing in a Psychic State with Ariana Reines August 14, 2012: Looks like Ron Silliman ain't the only one you can take a class with. This time it's physical. Actually it's psychic. Welcome to Ariana Reines' ANCIENT EVENINGS ("the name is stolen from a bad novel by norman mailer"). Every Friday from September 7, 2012, to "the close of the maya calendar," December 21, you can "read, eat, and drink together, [...] by Harriet Staff

Ariana Reines Reviewed at Boston Review July 25, 2012: Over at the Boston Review, B.K. Fisher reviews Ariana Reines's Coeur de Lion and Mercury, writing that, though she may be today's most "sexually explicit poet," flirting with mysticism, that Reines is not a spiritual poet: ...Her poems contain no trace of religiosity or theological hope, and she mentions sacred agendas with comic deflation [...] by Harriet Staff

‘I am a love theorist, how did that happen?’ Lauren Berlant Reads Ariana Reines and Delaminates Love Theory Notes July 25, 2012: Oh, Lauren Berlant, we can't get enough of you. And it seems you have been reading Ariana Reines's The Cow. It says so right on your blog: I have been reading Ariana Reines’ The Cow. Three students gave me this book within a space of six months, and then I’ve given it to people who I thought could bear it and not a single person has [...] by Harriet Staff

Announcing The Claudius App III: AMERICAN HANGOVER EDITION July 6, 2012: There's a strategically placed fortune on our Harriet desk that's going on about a secret admirer soon sending signs of affection. We like this: "[I]t IS ALL A HOT BECOMING"--The Claudius App III has just gone lighght; i.e, OUT NOW. We've pointed you there for previous issues. This one includes a negative review of Heather Christle (on [...] by Harriet Staff

Creaturely Smegma: Richard Hell Reviews Ariana Reines March 21, 2012: Why does this feel unreal? It's a great match. Richard Hell reviews Coeur de Lion and Mercury, both by Ariana Reines, in Bookforum's current issue. Hell also talked with Reines about...lots of stuff. It gets a little dirty: Reines, riffing on themes of Coeur, expanded, “There’s also the kind of creaturely smegma of living in your [...] by Harriet Staff