Harriet: News & Community
A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 31, 2017
Publishers Weekly reports that the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin has received a $195,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 30, 2017
The Poet, the Lion, Talking Pictures, El Farolito, a Wedding in St. Roch, the Big Box Store, the Warp in the Mirror, Spring, Midnights, Fire & All by C.D. Wright...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 30, 2017
Louisville poet Hannah Drake is taking on predatory signage in the historically black neighborhood of Smoketown one billboard at a time. Driving through the region with WFPL reporter Ashlie Stevens,...
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Featured BloggerBy Paolo JavierMarch 30, 2017
Photo Credit: J. Kirby The next couple of posts will be devoted to the work of former Parliamantery Poet Laureate of Canada Fred Wah, who lives in the unceded Coastal...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 30, 2017
"Written between 1975-1977 from the heart of New York City's art world, Constance DeJong's Modern Love is a forgotten classic of narrative prose innovation," writes Chris Kraus. If you don't...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 30, 2017
As they do every other year, Split This Rock is awarding the Freedom Plow Award for Poetry & Activism. This year's recipient is Christopher Soto (who also goes by Loma)....
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 29, 2017
The "Because We Come From Everything: Poetry & Migration” project--engined by a national Poetry Coalition that comprises over 25 poetry organizations (including us!)--is resonating in unexpected ways, writes Elizabeth Flock...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 29, 2017
Laura Cresté's Rumpus interview with award-winning poet Safiya Sinclair is a must-read. Cresté and Sinclair crossed paths while undergraduates at Bennington College, and perhaps it was this bond that cemented...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 29, 2017
Interviews are abounding! Next on our radar is Anselm Berrigan talking to Gabe Dozal for Sonora Review. They move from De Kooning to Joanne Kyger ("[s]he just made the wire...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 29, 2017
O, Miami's View-Through is an opportunity for Miami-Dade County state correctional facility residents to have their voices heard. The project invites users to enter one of six poems written by...