Harriet: News & Community

Gabe Herman of The Villager guides readers through a new exhibit that, according to the American Jewish Historical Society, "situates the genesis of the New Colossus poem in a brownstone sitting...

Situated within the New York Times's list of beloved artists, innovators, and thinkers we lost this year is David Marchese's look back at David Berman, who passed away this year at the...

Anna Gurton-Wachter, author of Utopia Pipe Dream Memory (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2019), answers Rob McLennan's 12 or 20 (second series) questions.

At Empty Mirror, Marilyn Duarte reviews poet and nonfiction writer Elisa Gabbert's new collection of essays, The Word Pretty (Black Ocean Press, 2019).

In the pages of the Washington Post, James G. Hershberg takes a close look at Daniel H. Weiss's In That Time: Michael O’Donnell and the Tragic Era of Vietnam (PublicAffairs, 2019), about a...

A.M. Juster documents a recent disagreement with the Library of Congress.

I like to think of poetry and drone music as weird, unwieldy correspondents exerting invisible gravities on one another’s orbits.

The Best American Poetry blog features a recommendation by Dante Di Stefano urging readers to check out a new anthology, edited by Martín Espada, called What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage...

Contributors to the December 2019 issue share some recommendations.