Harriet: News & Community

Poet Rita Dove wears sunglasses and holds a cup outside the University of Arizona Poetry Center in Tucson, Arizona. 1985. The University of Arizona Poetry Center is one of my...

Tender Buttons has done all the non-collectors among us a favor, making Bernadette Mayer's Utopia (United Artists, 1984, OOP) available for PDF download. As Freud said of this work, “I...

At the Boston Globe, Kate Tuttle profiles Harvard Graduate School of Education doctoral student and National Poetry Slam champion Clint Smith. Smith, who read from his new book last week...

As part of the Guardian's Translation Tuesdays by Asymptote, "Poems written during the Siege of Leningrad" excerpts from a "groundbreaking" anthology of Leningrad Siege poetry, Written in the Dark (Ugly...

Britain's Ministry of Justice is considering a new law that would clear the records of deceased gay and bisexual men convicted of criminal offenses that are no longer illegal. While...

Font therapy, as discovered by Jeramy Dodds in Northern Finland Wow: At the Puritan's Town Crier blog, Montreal-based poet and translator Jeramy Dodds exhibits his re-creation of an ancient Finnish...

"Mille et Une Nuits," 2015 The French painter and illustrator Marion Kadi first wrote to Poetry in May 2014, with the salutation "Hello from a distant shore..." Kadi included an array of work...

Hyperallergic's Allison Meier previews the Huntington's exhibition Real American Places: Edward Weston & Leaves of Grass, which opens this Saturday in San Marino, California. Although Edward Weston and Walt Whitman...

Spork Press, a Tucson-based publisher (which started as a magazine) known for its unique bookbinding and focus on experimental poetry and prose, is undergoing a transformation. "As the brainchild of...

Yes, THE gun that shot pauvre Rimbaud in 1873 and landed Verlaine in the clink. That gun. Christie's will be auctioning the 7mm revolver on November 30th, the Guardian reports....