Harriet: News & Community

In honor of the first ever National Dead Poets Remembrance day (which falls appropriately on the anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe's death), you could attend a community reading of the...

Lately, NPR has been covering the science and poetry stories like it's some kind of Helen Coldicott. This time, Ursula Goodenough posits that while the age old concern -...

Paul Muldoon chats it up with Prospero, the Economist's literary blog, about why a sonnet is like a bucket, poetry's vital signs, his friendship with Seamus Heaney, and Maggot, his...

Seamus Heaney is the winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection for Human Chain, his 12th collection. This is the first time the Nobel prize-winner has received the Forward....

A previously unseen poem (pictured) by Ted Hughes will be published tomorrow in the New Statesman. "Last Letter" chronicles the three days leading up to Sylvia Plath's suicide, beginning with...

Poet Orlando Ricardo Menes chats with Annie Leister and David Moffat of Bucknell University about all things sacred and profane. He talks about his fascination with Santería and his Roman...

The annual Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival kicked off yesterday in Newark, and while the largest city in Jersey doesn't exactly scream capital of cultural to much of the outside...

Jose Maria Millares Sall is the latest recipient of Spain’s National Poetry Prize. His final collection of poetry, Cuadernos 2000-2009, earned the late poet the honor posthumously. From the Latin American...

British novelist Nicholas Royle selected 10 books that represent "the extent to which literature and telephones are in cahoots," for the Guardian. Yes indeed. That familar brrrring-brrrring is actually the...

Is all poetry written in a secret language that must be cracked like DaVinci's code? Of course not. Yet teachers often approach poems as riddles to be solved, suggests poet...