Harriet: News & Community

An awl is  a tool for scratching marks on wood. The Awl is an eclectic Web site featuring a potpourri of arts, culture, silliness, snark, and poetry. Yes, poetry! Do...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker discusses her new poetry collection, Hard Times Require Furious Dancing, with NPR's Michel Martin. She talks devastation, loss, seeing the glass half full, and dancing...

The Lemon Hound blog, now with invitation only guests, features a new post on the history appropriation and erasure. It’s a brief but helpful take on a long and...

Last week the Huffington Post published a long article by Anis Shivani entitled “Is the MFA System Corrupt and Undemocratic?” Of course, the title is a rhetorical question, and...

There have been a couple of Harriet posts lately about visual poetry, but little regarding digital poetry. It's time to correct that! Australian digital poet Jason Nelson has a...

To e-read or not to e-read? That's no longer the question. Whether or not you embrace them, e-readers and e-books are here to stay, and now the question for many...

W.S. Merwin has had no shortage of interviews in recent months, and that's most definitely a good thing. Our poet laureate has endless wisdom to share, and this time he...

The Roberto Bolaño trove of goodies is about to expand, reports the Telegraph. Tim Martin reviews Bolaño's The Skating Rink, a black comedy/murder mystery/thriller previously unpublished in English: The Skating...

Not much has changed at the top of this week's contemporary best seller list, but down in the wild and wooly double digits there are some notable additions. The National...

Scholar Mark Scroggins writes, in a recent post on his blog, about about the fiery style of the young Ezra Pound, in which Pound clearly and forcefully lays out an...