Harriet: News & Community

In celebration of Banned Books Week, dirty old Harriet has culled together a few obscene and sexually explicit poems banned throughout the ages. Lets go in chronological order, shall we? Charles...

Various blogs have posted news that poet and editor Michael Gizzi has died. Gizzi is the author of, among other collections, My Terza Rima, No Both, Interferon,...

In her weekly poetry corner for the Mirror, poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy samples Christine Webb's "Allotment:"  "The raspberries are sharp, cool, fitting my fingers like thimbles," begins Webb. Here's Duffy's...

Scottish poet William McGonagall spent much of his career being pelted with various stinky objects, including fish and eggs. Why? The Scotsman was considered a horrendous poet, and now a...

Poet Thomas Sayers Ellis has been publishing his “Ten Rules for Changing the Game”—the game of poetry, that is—as Facebook status updates, and now the literary commandments have been reprinted...

Planning a holiday in West Wales? If so, then visit the getaway home of poet Dylan Thomas.  The rocky retreat makes the Daily Mail's list of six things visitors must...

Go to a poetry reading or sloth around the house in your Slanket? Tough choice. Well, now you can do both, because the eighth installment of HTMLGIANT's Live...

Emily Dickinson's little-known scientific side is brought to light in Seeing New Englandly, a short film about the poet that premiers tonight at Amherst Cinema. Dickinson's extensive education in science...

The Giant Panda at the zoo just sits and chomps on fresh bamboo. His belly is like a cooking pot, Which happens when you eat a lot. He's content to do not much but...

Two months after the death of Virginia Quarterly Review managing editor Kevin Morrissey—and the subsequent allegations of bullying by editor Ted Genoways—Slate offers some perspective: A closer look at what happened...