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As many artistic-minded folks tend to agree, the best year-end list of best things is Dennis Cooper's "Mine for yours: My favorite fiction, poetry, nonfiction, film, music, art & internet...

In tandem with her 2016 Atelos book The Republic of Exit 43: Outtakes and Scores from an Archaeology and Pop-Up Opera of the Corporate Dump, Jennifer Scappettone pauses to discuss...

Released last month, In the Company of Russell Atkins pays homage to one of Cleveland's literary giants. "During high school, Atkins was turned on to poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley,...

Nina MacLaughlin reviews Joseph Massey's newest collection, Illocality (Wave Books, 2016), for the Boston Globe. In the book, composed in his first year in Western Massachusetts after a move from...

W Magazine hitched its star--alongside 18.9 thousand others, and counting--to Twitter's brightest account, Astro Poets! While W calls the brains behind the magick simply "English buffs," you know them as...

Detail from "Snake Stack No. 2" by Janie Stamm For our December 2016 playlist, we asked contributor Marcus Wicker to curate a selection of music for us. You can read...

There's a new issue of Lana Turner out in the world (and back up and running after an internet downage). While it's the familiar LT bunch, we're into the translation...

"What do we look for when we read for pleasure? To see ourselves through the eyes of another?" asks David S. Wallace in "Unfamiliar Tongues: Eliot Weinberger's Travels in the...

"For NPR fans, Billy Collins needs no introduction," writes Camilla Domonoske for NPR. But for you Harriet readers, we should say that Billy Collins is an American poet--former U.S. Poet...

2016 has come to pass... As we do each year, your dutiful Harriet Staff asks employees of the Poetry Foundation to share a book (or two) that helped get them...