Harriet: News & Community

Poets of the Bible: From Solomon's Song of Songs to John's Revelation (W. W. Norton & Company) Seth Abramson, Charles Bernstein, Tracie Morris, Jesse Damiani (editors), BAX 2016: Best American Experimental Writing (Wesleyan) Nancy E....

The first issue of new digital/print magazine Sublevel has arrived! Coedited by Janice Lee and Maggie Nelson, this publication is rooted in the CalArts MFA Creative Writing Program and is...

For Melville House's Moby Lives, poet and translator Ian Dreiblatt covers Trump's "little breakfast" yesterday, at which it was revealed he knew not a) how to construct a complete sentence;...

We were elated to wake up this morning to the news that Jean Valentine has won the 2017 Bollingen Prize for Poetry. Yale News reports on the honor: Jean Valentine has...

Brooklyn Poets' Poet of the Week is translator, poet, teacher, and publisher Camilo Roldán! "Why Brooklyn?" they ask. His response: "There can be a brick / In a brick wall...

In reaction to the first few days of Trump's presidency, Edwidge Danticat looks to Audre Lorde's poetry while reflecting on the changing character of Miami, a place where immigrants could...

Although the poet Elizabeth Bishop valued concise messaging, Megan Marshall's concise new Bishop biography is unfortunately "dispiriting," according to Dwight Garner at New York Times. Here, the fatal flaw according...

Ashland, Oregon native Sho Sugita speaks with the region's Mail Tribune about his life after graduating from Ashland High School on the eve of his reading at Southern Oregon University's...

"Reading Monster," by CHema Skandal! Poetry magazine's February cover is by legendary artist CHema Skandal! While I have known his work from around the way, I never knew it by name. Then during a recent visit to the...

Claremont Graduate University announces that the 2017 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award goes to Vievee Francis and the 2017 Kate Tufts Discovery Award goes to Phillip B. Williams. Francis wins the...