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A literary blog about poetry and related news

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  • Poetry News
    By Harriet StaffMay 21, 2020

    At The Guardian, Rory Carroll writes that Ireland's health officials are employing poetry for social distancing campaigns while companies and charities are commissioning poems for public health announcements.

    William Butler Yeats
  • Poetry News
    By Harriet StaffMay 21, 2020

    At NPR, Lynsey Jeffery alerts readers to a stark reality: Shakespeare's Globe theatre may not survive the Covid-19 pandemic without support from the government.

  • Poetry News
    By Harriet StaffMay 20, 2020

    At the New York Times, Alexandra Alter writes about publishers who, in an effort to stay timely, are sprinting to publish books that address the Covid-19 pandemic.

    Several rows of book shelves
  • Poetry News
    By Harriet StaffMay 15, 2020

    James Parker's latest article at The Atlantic draws readers' attention to The Ancient Mariner Big Read, a streaming digital-interpretation of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem co-curated by Philip Hoare, Angela Cockayne, and Sarah Chapman, commissioned by the...

    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Poetry News
    By Harriet StaffMay 15, 2020

    On All Things Considered, reporter Eyder Peralta speaks with Nigerian poet Lola Shoneyin, who, amidst lockdowns across the continent of Africa, is inviting African poets to read and record poetry to express and reflect...

  • Poetry News
    By Harriet StaffMay 13, 2020

    In an article at the New Yorker, Stephen Greenblatt reminds us that William Shakespeare was born mere months before the plague began to kill villagers in his hometown of Stratford-Upon-Avon.

    William Shakespeare
  • Poetry News
    By Harriet StaffMay 11, 2020

    Questions about our current "mid-corona" moment are brought into a new light when Andrew Choate holds them up to Fernando Pessoa's musings from an earlier, similarly existential time.

    Fernando Pessoa
  • Poetry News
    By Harriet StaffMay 11, 2020

    Arizona Poet Laureate Alberto Ríos called into the virtual green room of Zócalo Public Square (an "ASU knowledge enterprise") to talk about Swedish detective fiction, seeing into the future, and the past.

  • Poetry News
    By Harriet StaffMay 11, 2020

    With the cancellation of the March Split This Rock Poetry Festival as his starting point, Brandon Shimoda's latest contribution to futurefeed illuminates concepts like ancestry, silence, and shame within Japanese American literature, all set before the backdrop of the...

    Brandon Shimoda
  • Poetry News
    By Harriet StaffMay 8, 2020

    The LA Times takes a look at how FDR wisely supported writers through the Works Progress Administration and the Federal Writers Project.

    Image of Langston Hughes