Harriet: News & Community

"She was unique, different, seductive, like no one else in the world. That’s what people who knew her say." Thus begins Mariana Enriquez's profile of poet and writer Silvina Ocampo at...

NPR journalist Jeevika Verma considers the significance of Vijay Seshadri's appointment to the masthead of the Paris Review.

There's a lot about Emily Dickinson that AppleTV+ gets wrong, Johanna Winant writes in her Slate assessment of the whimsical new series, Dickinson, which is "silly, horny, a little sad, and just a shade frightening."

Regarding Tommy Pico's 2019 collection of poems, Feed (Tin House, 2019), Royal Young writes in Interview that Pico "pulls us in with his irresistibly vulnerable and kaleidoscopic language."

At Irish Times, friends and fans remember poet and playwright Tom MacIntyre, who passed away last week at the age of 87. 

Benjamin Aleshire was (and is!) a poet-for-hire at a New Orleans technology conference "called" "Mare Nostrum"; and he lived to tell the tale for Lit Hub.

For the November issue of the Brooklyn Rail, Tony Leuzzi reviews The Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman (City Lights, 2019).

At The Rumpus, Rosebud Ben-Oni discusses her new book, turn around, BRXGHT XYXS (Get Fresh Books, 2019).

Futurepoem inaugurated its new online platform, futurefeed, with a post by its inaugural blogger-in-residence: Douglas Kearney!

For Full Stop, Jay Aquinas Thompson reviews Lauren Levin's second collection, Justice Piece // Transmission (Timeless, Infinite Light 2018).