Harriet: News & Community
A literary blog about poetry and related news
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By Emily WarnSeptember 18, 2007
Where is Kwame Dawes? Did we muzzle Kenneth Goldsmith after his Madonna/Koons post? Why have Patricia Smith’s musings and shout outs slowed down? And who are all these...
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By A.E. StallingsSeptember 18, 2007
During Greece’s long hottest-on-record summer, and while Arcadia was, literally, burning, and while I was without babysitting and left with the lioness’s share of child care (we have a three-year...
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By Stephanie BurtSeptember 17, 2007
We don't want our toddler to watch much TV, but we do let him watch some things, and we watch them with him: Meerkat Manor, for example, and WNBA basketball...
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By Rigoberto GonzálezSeptember 16, 2007
I attend at least two poetry readings a month in New York City. A few venues I check on periodically like The Bowery Poetry Club and Cornelia Street Café—both are...
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By Ange MlinkoSeptember 16, 2007
These Jeanne Moreau-ish Bourgeois eyeballs (cast upward as, we are told, is proper to champagne sipping) led me to the entrance of the Williams College Museum of Art in a...
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By Christian BökSeptember 16, 2007
I appreciate your responses to my thinking out loud, and I might stress that, for me, literary history does not consist of a "straight line" with one improvement succeeding another...
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By Christian BökSeptember 15, 2007
I often remind my students that, despite their belief that they have important knowledge to communicate to the world at large through their poetry, their status as poets already suggests...
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By Kenneth GoldsmithSeptember 15, 2007
__ U B U W E B __ http://ubu.com ------------------------------------------ UBUWEB :: Featured Resources Fall 2007 ------------------------------------------ Featured Resources: Fall 2007 Selected by Juliana Spahr 1. Learn to Say Penis http://www.ubu.com/outsiders/ass/penis.html 2. Germaine Dulac "La coquille et le clergyman" http://www.ubu.com/film/dulac_coquille.html 3. Maya...
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By A.E. StallingsSeptember 15, 2007
I guess I should introduce myself. I am an American poet (I grew up around Atlanta, and went to the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia), but I have...
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By Stephanie BurtSeptember 14, 2007
Last night Cappie Pondexter's clutch one-on-one play tied the WNBA finals at two games apiece for Detroit and Phoenix. Whoever wins game five this Sunday (4:30pm Eastern on ESPN2)...