Harriet: News & Community
A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Featured BloggerBy Marianne BoruchJuly 28, 2020
COVID. But the sorrow doesn’t stop. The best escapes from lockdown have meant walks in the woods. I can praise our favorite trails or new lush spots that friends in our...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 20, 2020
In Afghanistan's underground communities, poetry societies led by women have been gaining popularity.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 17, 2020
Boston Review shares a heartbreaking plea written by Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla, the niece of celebrated Indian poet and activist, Varavara Rao, who has been imprisoned on-and-off since 2018 and is now...
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Featured BloggerBy Marianne BoruchJuly 14, 2020
Since lockdown and now its loosening at the end of May, the governors declaring for good or ill their phases for opening stores and restaurants a sliver then halfsies then...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 8, 2020
On the Mellon Foundation's Shared Experiences blog, Claudia Castro Luna speaks about her grant-funded project, One River, Many Voices, her work as Washington State's Poet Laureate, and the ways that poetry can...
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From Poetry MagazineBy Faylita HicksJune 5, 2020
For our June 2020 playlist, we asked contributor Faylita Hicks, whose poem “Photo of a Girl, 1992: Gremlins” appears in the issue, to curate a selection of music for us. Click here to open the playlist...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJune 1, 2020
From Claremont, California, Prageeta Sharma speaks with Sarah Aronson, host of Montana Public Radio program The Write Question, about her newest book, Grief Sequence (Wave Books) and about leading creative writing workshops "through a...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJune 1, 2020
For Christian Science Monitor, Elizabeth Lund speaks with Naomi Shihab Nye about the ways that poetry can illuminate our world, especially in this time of social distancing
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJune 1, 2020
Twenty-three poets around the country received $50,000 Poet Laureate Fellowships from the Academy of American Poets yesterday, after the program was expanded amidst the current crisis.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMay 21, 2020
In The Baffler's "Word Factory" section, Maddie Crum spends time with Mark Nowak's Social Poetics (Coffeehouse Press), and the poetry workshops that Nowak's been leading for essential workers.
