Jeffrey Yang Leads Us into the Abyss March 20, 2013: [caption id="attachment_62944" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Yves Klein in the Void Room (Raum der Leere), Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, January 1961.[/caption] “I used to keep a list of books in which ‘the abyss’ appeared — the [...] by Lindsay Garbutt

Pablo Neruda To Be Exhumed February 11, 2013: For a few years now we've been reporting on calls to have Pablo Neruda's remains exhumed as Chile investigates the circumstances surround the poet's death. According to this article from globalpost, the exhumation will be going forward. A Chilean judge has ordered the remains of poet and Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda exhumed in a probe [...] by Harriet Staff

On Neruda and Taylor Swift November 1, 2012: Check out this WSJ article, "The Platinum Poetry of Taylor Swift", by Christopher John Farley. Farley centers his piece around Swift's Red liner note reference to Pablo Neruda. It begins: In the liner notes to her new album “Red,” Taylor Swift writes “There’s an old poem by Neruda that I’ve always been captivated by, and one [...] by Harriet Staff

Domestic Workers United Writers’ Workshop April 10, 2012: This past Saturday was, for me, like most Saturdays this year. I slept in, had a mug of Irish Breakfast tea, took the L-train into Manhattan, and spent two glorious hours facilitating a creative writing workshop in the 9th floor offices of Domestic Workers United (DWU)—the group central to the passage of  the New York State Domestic Workers [...] by Mark Nowak

Samuel L. Jackson Reads Pablo Neruda February 7, 2012: We'll let you make your own joke about snakes and planes. Done? Good. Now go listen to this. It's great. That background music is open game, of course. by Harriet Staff

Chile to Investigate Death of Pablo Neruda June 2, 2011: According to the Guardian, Chile is investigating the death of Nobel-prize winner Pablo Neruda in order to explain Augusto Pinochet's involvement. The Chile communist party is claiming that Neruda was injected with poison while in a Santiago health clinic undergoing treatment for prostate cancer (which led to heart failure and ultimately death) [...] by Harriet Staff

Pablo Neruda and the fiction of a poet’s house in Chile January 13, 2011: Luke Epplin writes in The Millions about the pitfalls of literary tourism and how one's perceived insight into an author is often the product of what the visitor hoped to gain by visiting the author's home. Epplin has traveled to many writers' homes, leaving him a self-described cynic about the power of these places to provide any illumination [...] by Harriet Staff