Harriet: News & Community

At diaCRITICS, Vi Khi Nao talks with Sophia Terazawa about her debut chapbook, I AM NOT A WAR (Essay Press, 2019).

For his site Neon Pajamas, Benjamin Niespodziany interviews Mary Ruefle, whose newest book, Dunce, is just out from Wave Books.

Among the winners of this year's Kirkus Prize is Saeed Jones for his memoir How We Fight for Our Lives.

In The Mirror of My Heart: A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women, translated by Dick Davis, "some of the most striking writers are essentially anonymous."

Nneka McGuire spends time with Saeed Jones in his new hometown of Columbus, Ohio.

Ariana Reines's A Sand Book—and its apocalyptic visions, in particular—are considered in depth at the New Yorker.

Peter Mishler talks to Diana Khoi Nguyen, author of the debut collection, Ghost Of (Omnidawn, 2018), for Lit Hub.

Alissa Quart draws readers' attention to Elizabeth Warren's director of surrogates and strategic communications, poet Camonghne Felix.

The music of the resurrected Black myth begins as poems that arrive like spells and bind like spells and unwind as song.