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Step off, poets, no one beats Anne Sexton in the art of the metaphor. When I introduce this poetic device to a classroom of novice writers I usually arrive armed with...

This week I've been fascinated by Elizabeth Mitchell, lately of the pop group Ida, and more recently ascending, slowly and with quiet confidence, to well-deserved fame as a singer of...

I wrote a comment in response to Simon DeDeo's response to Don Share's post below. It dovetails with Rigoberto's call this week for more reviewing. I don't disagree with Rigoberto. As...

Greetings, everyone.... Today marks my initial posting to Harriet, and of course I am looking forward to contributing to the discussion on this website. For now, I am hoping to begin...

Look at these faces. These six people allegedly held a West Virginia black woman captive for an entire week, choking, raping and stabbing her while forcefeeding her feces and peppering her...

The Biblical phrase “through a glass darkly” is in reference to the human’s inability to achieve enlightenment (or see God’s grace with clarity) until the moment of death. Igmar Bergman’s...

"When I say, then, that the current audience for poetry in America lacks taste, I do not mean to suggest that we have bad taste--that we like bad poems. ...

If you depend on television for your sense of what is hot in the news, you may be forgiven for not knowing about the Jena 6. But there is something...

A few months ago I read Toni Bentley’s and Gelsey Kirkland’s ballet memoirs, and acquired a bad case of self-pity: here was an art so unlike poetry, where the practice...

I’m still on my mission to convince readers of poetry to try their hand at reviewing a book of poetry at least once! It amazes me how when poets publish...