‘I want to keep some room in the world for the quiet and private’ October 22, 2012: Congratulations are in order to Jane Hirshfield for being awarded the Donald Hall-Jane Kenyon Prize in American Poetry. From the Concord Monitor: Jane Hirshfield, who hid her poems under the mattress as a child, will receive the Donald Hall-Jane Kenyon Prize in American Poetry on Wednesday night in Concord. The presentation and reading [...] by Harriet Staff

A Closer Look at Four New Collections by Four Bay Area Poets October 11, 2012: Dean Rader wrote this HuffPo blog post on four collections he considers best of the Bay Area. The four poets highlighted are Aaron Shurin, Camille Dungy, W. S. Di Piero, and Jane Hirshfield. Of Dungy, Rader has this to say: The most eclectic collection under review is Camille T. Dungy's Smith Blue. There are many things to like [...] by Harriet Staff

Dispatch from the 2010 Key West Literary Seminar January 9, 2010: Greetings from the 28th annual Key West Literary Seminar, which is dedicated to poetry this year and honors Richard Wilbur. I'm filing this post from a mobile device that tried to auto-correct the words "Key West" into "awestruck." It's as if my smartphone knows how I feel about being in the midst of so many gifted poets. My status update on [...] by Catherine Halley