Harriet: News & Community
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- Poetry NewsThe New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research and Culture may be temporarily closed, but librarians have been busy digitizing and curating several new …
- Poetry NewsOn Morning Edition, Jeevika Verma spends time with torrin greathouse, author of Wound from the Mouth of a Wound (Milkweed Editions, 2020), which won the Ballard Spahr…
- Poetry NewsAt The Guardian, Vanessa Thorpe writes about UK Poet Laureate Simon Armitage and British filmmaker Brian Hill's latest project, which documents the effects of the Covid…
- Poetry NewsAt the Eagle-Tribune (a local newspaper covering the Merrimack Valley of Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire), Jim Sullivan writes about growing calls for president…

- Poetry NewsFrances McCue writes for Geek Wire about living and writing amidst Seattle's tech industry, during the Covid-19 pandemic. "
- Poetry NewsAt TIME, Suyin Haynes writes about Russian poet Galina Rymbu and a collective of feminist and LGBTQ poets called "F pis’mo" or "F Writing."
- Poetry NewsAt Minnesota Public Radio News, Kerri Miller names three poetry collections her "must-reads" of this year: Claudia Rankine’s Just Us, Rachel Eliza Griffiths’s Seeing…
- Poetry NewsCongratulations to André Naffis-Sahely who has been appointed Poetry London's new poetry editor!
- Poetry NewsIn 1933, King George V and his Poet Laureate, John Masefield, began to recognize excellence in poetry with the offering of a Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, the 2020 …
- Poetry NewsThe Paris Review asked its contributors to fill us in on their favorite books of 2020, and it's all Jeremy Prynne for Jeff Dolven.
- Poetry NewsAt Vanity Fair, Laura Regensdorf writes about Rachel Rabbit White, author of Porn Carnival (Wonder, 2019) and the forthcoming Porn Carnival: Paradise Edition (Wonder…
- Poetry NewsErin Becker looks back to Lisa Rogal's chapbook, Feed Me Weird Things (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018) for a review at MAKE Literary Magazine.
- Poetry NewsIn a new review for The Baffler, Karthik Purushothaman considers Philip Metres's most recent collection, Shrapnel Maps (Copper Canyon, 2020).
- Poetry NewsPoets & Writers staff dive into the deep end of the situation at Poets House, with a thorough article that surveys everything from the organization's abrupt closing …
- Poetry NewsLast week, the Feminist Press released a new edition of Meena Alexander's Fault Lines to commemorate the two-year-anniversary of her death.

- Poetry NewsKevin Young's African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song (Library of America) is "much more diasporic than 'African American' might seem to suggest," says…

- Poetry NewsAt Local Spins, Nick Moran introduces readers to Grand Rapids's newest poet laureate, Ericka “Kyd Kane” Thompson, who succeeds Marcel “Fable the Poet” Price, and is …
- Poetry NewsAt The Rumpus, in keeping with yearly tradition, Barbara Berman has reviewed "four new collections of poetry and books on poetics that would be perfect for any reader…
- Poetry NewsAt Pitchfork, Jenn Pelly talks to Fiona Apple about her latest album, Fetch the Bolt Cutters.


