Harriet: News & Community

There are good Samaritans, but mostly there are people who can be kind and who happen to be there when you need a little help. There are holy people—the good...

Recently, a reporter (Travis Nichols) called to ask why we publish Jim Behrle on our website. “Because he’s an indicator species,” I answered. His question got me thinking...

Kwame -- OH. MY. GOD. I can't believe we have something in common: The Carpenters! YES - yes yes - the Carpenters are #1 all-time in my book, in particular,...

It might have been two months ago when I posted some thoughts about translation. At some point, I observed that it was possible for a good translator/poet to transform a...

I have said I various places that my first real influence as a poet was Gerard Manley Hopkins, the British poet of “God’s Grandeur”, “Pied Beauty”, and “The Kingfisher”. ...

So the other night I did one of those trademark New York things that everyone else in the world imagines they want to do. It was an unsettling mingling of...

Here’s a new ad campaign by Home Depot. Scene opens on a suburban woman in khaki shorts and a summer hat, the sun hitting her muddy calves, making them sparkle...

I have partied with Emily Warn. I can die now.

Patricia, It's all too easy to understand the fact that you felt violated by the uncredited appropriation of your poem by another person. You created it, most likely gave it away...