Harriet: News & Community

Kevin Killian's plays were published this year by Kenning Editions, as you may know.

The Academy of American Poets interviews Joy Harjo on the occasion of her very recent appointment to the position of United States poet laureate.

Responding to Kevin Killian's death last weekend, the staff of Jacket2 has compiled a few of their favorite Killian quotes, talks, and poems.

Joy Harjo is the first Native American to be named U.S. poet laureate.

Divya Victor has edited a new feature for Jacket2 called "Extreme Texts," which "explores 'extremity' in twenty-first-century poetics.

Alice Oswald has been elected as the next Oxford University Professor of Poetry, making her the first woman to hold the position.

Poet Daniel Owen's prefatory essay on translating Afrizal Malna's Museum Penghancur Dokumen (Shredding Document Museum) from the Indonesian is up at A Perfect Vacuum.

Co-editor, collaborator, and friend Peter Gizzi shares his fondest memories of Kevin Killian with readers of Chicago Review.

Emmalea Russo interviews Ariana Reines for the Fanzine this week, after reading Reines's new collection, A Sand Book.