Harriet: News & Community
A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffNovember 19, 2020
At the New York Times, Alexandra Alter provides a thorough run-down of the 2020 National Book Awards's [virtual] festivities.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffNovember 19, 2020
At Lexington Herald-Leader, Kevin Nance writes about Frank X Walker and his new book of poems, Masked Man, Black: Pandemic & Protest Poems (Accents Publishing).
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffNovember 17, 2020
As part of Poets & Writers's "Craft Capsules" series, Chen Chen Covid-19-related anxiety, memories of high school, and the act of writing essays.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 13, 2020
At Hyperallergic, John Yau introduces readers to Hank Lazer's timely sequence of poems, collectively titled COVID19 SUTRAS (Lavender Ink, 2020).
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 8, 2020
Louise Glück is the first female poet to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature since 1996, when it was given to Polish writer Wisława Szymborska, and the first American to receive it since...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffSeptember 25, 2020
At PBS NewsHour, Amit Majmudar speaks with Jeffrey Brown about the ways that the pandemic has shaped his writing practice.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffSeptember 17, 2020
The Seattle Times reports on City of Redmond Poet Laureate Raúl Sánchez's Poetry Pole, which invites bystanders to take a poem as they walk through his neighborhood.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffSeptember 10, 2020
R.H. Lossin looks to Henry David Thoreau's Walden for insight into our current isolation, in a new post at New York Review Daily.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffSeptember 3, 2020
At Pasatiempo, Jennifer Levin speaks with U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo about When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through (W.W. Norton, 2020).
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Featured BloggerBy Kimberly AlidioSeptember 1, 2020
I have a newly released book (from Belladonna*) that undoes in language normative relations of self, lover, body, nature, verb, noun, adjective. This description is from the book’s metadata, which...
