The Claudia Rankine Bandits February 6, 2012: These folks drove 708 miles in one day to hear Claudia Rankine read. Along the way they wrote out passages from Rankine's The End of the Alphabet, rolled them up into little scrolls, and left them in random places for strangers to find and engage with. How cool would it be to stop at a gas station for a Drumstick and find some Rankine tucked into [...] by Harriet Staff

Poetry and race April 30, 2011: I’m kinda surprised that there hasn’t been any commentary on Harriet this month about the biggest and most heated discussion in the poetry world this spring—Claudia Rankine’s public questioning at the most recent AWP conference of Tony Hoagland’s poem “The Change.” Daisy Fried contributed a post just a few days ago that analyzed [...] by Alan Gilbert

don’t call it classical April 14, 2011: Ahem. My literary-life motto for this year is "slightly less writing and much more reading," and so I almost said no to this return-to-blogging — but having now seen Anselm's amazing nonlinear take on writing with a newborn around I'm in the mood to believe anyone can do anything, as long as it's done in an enthusiastic and a nonlinear fashion. [...] by Stephen Burt

Controllable Git November 15, 2009: One thing that happened the other day was the memorial, at which one found the issue in which one’s article on the other one recently passed was printed. Agh! I was blogging around trying to nosedive into ashes (more...) by Anselm Berrigan