Harriet: News & Community
A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Featured BloggerBy Jennifer BartlettMay 2, 2017
David Bowie as Andy Warhol and Jeffrey Wright as Jean-Michel Basquiat. In the film Basquiat, Christopher Walken asks Jeffrey Wright, who plays the title character Jean-Michel Basquiat, "Do you consider...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMay 2, 2017
Robin Coste Lewis has been named the newest Los Angeles poet laureate, succeeding outgoing poet laureate Luis J. Rodriguez. L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti announced the news last Thursday. LAist's Julia...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMay 2, 2017
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that poet Jack Mueller, "a fixture in San Francisco’s North Beach scene of the 1970s and ’80s," passed away this week in his home in...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMay 1, 2017
While we were blogging away last month, Julien Poirier was in conversation with Charles Plymell at the City Lights blog, Abandon All Despair Ye Who Enter Here. Plymell was a...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMay 1, 2017
New York Times takes a tip from Jezebel (reported on Harriet here) and reports on an hour spent "home alone" in Emily Dickinson's bedroom. Times reporter Sarah Lyall writes, "the...
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From Poetry MagazineBy Fred SasakiMay 1, 2017
"Silverlake Ribbon 3," 2016 Poetry magazine's May cover is by Alexander Stewart, whom I first knew as founder and co-director (with Lilli Carré) of the Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation....
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMay 1, 2017
ARTnews brings the shocking news that Vito Acconci has died at the age of 77. "Though Acconci made his name with radical performances and later reinvented himself as an outré...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMay 1, 2017
We've come to the end of another April, filled with engaging, stimulating, and enlightening writing here on Harriet. Our gratitude goes out to this year's contributors, thanks and thanks and...
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Featured BloggerBy Paolo JavierApril 29, 2017
PAOLO: If I may, I’d like begin with the last part of the second poem in Tree (1972): dear birch across from me we face                    the quiet pool of ourselves                                      face each other                                                        return          we                      look...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffApril 28, 2017
Poets & Writers reports that nineteen-year-old Amanda Gorman of Los Angeles has been named the first National Youth Poet Laureate! "The unprecedented title, to be awarded annually, honors a teen...