Harriet: News & Community

Anthony Reed reviews Tongo Eisen-Martin's Heaven Is All Goodbyes (City Lights, 2019), for the summer issue of Commune.

"Far from a mere collection of nutty pirouettes, [George] Perec’s writing often confronts the most disturbing historical realities," writes Paul Grimstad.

At Literary Hub, Thomas Dai considers the appearances of railroads in poetry by Kai Carlson-Wee and Jenny Xie.

Rosebud Ben-Oni interviews poet Emilia Phillips about her new collection, Empty Clip (University of Akron Press, 2018), for the Kenyon Review blog.

Luke Buckmaster pays tribute to Dead Poets Society, made 30 years ago this year, at The Guardian.

Amanda Petrusich of the New Yorker visited Wendell Berry at his home in Port Royal, Kentucky to discuss rural America, climate change, and local knowledge.

In tandem with the publication of James Tate's final collection, The Government Lake, the Washington Post, shares an excerpt from Charles Simic's remembrance included in the volume.

At Metamute, Lotte L.S. speaks with Teflon editors Jazra Khaleed and Kyoko Kishida about the Greek literary magazine's formation in 2009 and the publication's ambitions.

For KGB Bar Lit, Eileen Myles met up with Sallie Fullerton at Café Mogador to talk about family.

Must Read Alaska has picked up on the state's troubling, deep budget cuts, much due to poet and UAF professor Sara Eliza Johnson, author of Bone Map (Milkweed, 2014).