Harriet: News & Community
A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffFebruary 23, 2017
There will be no joy in missing out on this one! Over at Lambda Literary, Michael Valinsky talks to Ana Božičević about her latest collection of verses, The Joy of...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffFebruary 23, 2017
Literary Hub's Emily Temple brings to readers' attention a few highly unusual residencies that will catch even the most sophisticated residency-seeker off-guard. Of course, we all know about the Amtrak...
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Poetry News
U.S. Poet Laureate Encourages Bilingualism, Translation, & Storytelling as We Face Deportation Fears
By Harriet StaffFebruary 23, 2017U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera read poems at Emory's Schwartz Center on February 19, and in speaking to the university's Emory Wheel about the event, decried Trump's wall and...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffFebruary 23, 2017
Jackie Wang did us all a favor and posted part of the chapter "Poetic Act” from Alejandro Jodorowsky’s book Psychomagic. "Jodorowsky’s poetic youth is also the subject of his new...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffFebruary 23, 2017
The Executive Director of CLMP and SPD, Jeffrey Lependorf, walks Literary Hub readers through Lyndon B. Johnson's original 1965 legislation, which led to the creation of the National Endowment for...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffFebruary 22, 2017
Kyla Marshell of the Cave Canem Foundation interviews poet Cameron Awkward-Rich for the PEN Ten. "He is a teller of ghost stories—but of course, they’re not the stories of goblins...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffFebruary 22, 2017
Craig Santos Perez has become the first native Pacific Islander to win the Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship for Poetry, reports none other than NBC News. He joins, notably, fellow awardees...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffFebruary 22, 2017
At Jacket2, Jerome Rothenberg has posted a piece by Tucson-based Robert Yerachmiel Snyderman that moves through a "politics of fermentation" and a consideration of the lyric subject and incantation, to,...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffFebruary 22, 2017
In a recent article, published in the scientific journal Frontiers in Psychology, Professor Guillaume Thierry and his colleagues at Bangor University articulate the fascinating relationship between poetry's ability to spark...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffFebruary 21, 2017
Poet Claire Donato takes to music criticism swimmingly, writing at The Fanzine about Joanne Newsom's fourth album, Divers (Drag City, 2015), which "crystallizes toward the end of her third decade"...