Harriet: News & Community
A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Featured BloggerBy Sabrina Orah MarkAugust 24, 2020
When my sons were babies they only slept if they slept like metaphors. I swaddled them. I wrapped them tight in a soft muslin blanket printed with moons or trees...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffAugust 24, 2020
A new Dial-a-Poem collaboration between Poetry Society of America and Saint Flashlight—"the creative team of Molly Gross and Drew Pisarra, two conceptual artists devoted to placing poetry in public spaces"—seeks to...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffAugust 11, 2020
The New York Times finds out more about Portsmouth, New Hampshire Poet Laureate Tammi J. Truax's weekly contributions to the city's Covid-19 newsletter.
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Featured BloggerBy Sabrina Orah MarkAugust 11, 2020
In Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, a children’s book by Mill Martin Jr. and John Archambault, the whole alphabet climbs up a tree. The letters are so heavy the trunk bends...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffAugust 6, 2020
Orion, "America's Finest Environmental Magazine," has published an interview with incoming poetry editor Camille Dungy that touches on editorial vision, earthquakes, literary mapping, and the nuances of teaching creative writing during a global pandemic.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffAugust 4, 2020
At LARB, Lisa Russ Spaar's column, "Second Acts," returns with deep dives into second collections by Kathryn Cowles, Peter Kline, and Michael Prior.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffAugust 4, 2020
For the New York Times's "T List: Five Things We Recommend This Week," Samuel Rutter recommends Asiya Wadud's "Echo Exhibit" as part of River to River Festival 2020: Four Voices.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 31, 2020
Prairie Public News reports on residents at North Dakota's Burleigh County Senior Center participating in a poetry project called "Where I'm From," funded by the North Dakota Council on the Arts.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 30, 2020
At Fast Company, Clare Morgan and Massimo Portincaso argue that CEOs need to read poetry now, more than ever, because leaders are being called on to engage with a complex world.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 28, 2020
Poet and playwright Khadijah Queen weighs in on COVID-19-time with a zuihitsu (a Japanese genre or form akin to the lyric essay) at Harper's: "I collect living things at the end of their lives,"...
