Harriet: News & Community

I've had a poem stolen. Imagine my surprise when a friend mailed me a copy of one of my poems with somebody else's name on it. The scoundrel, a student at...

From the lengthy copyright discussion going on, now brought above the fold. Please feel free to chime in. Emily Warn wrote: For obvious reasons, we have to be street-legal for all poems...

Kenneth, First, a message for you. The legal folks at the New York Transport Authority have delivered a court order to me to testify against you. Apparently, they have decided to...

I have been writing this final entry on Calabash for four days. Having returned to South Carolina to finish teaching my short semester course, "Love African American Style", a close...

My son, Judah Darwin Zucker Goren, was born at home (in the water) yesterday morning. We were gently and lovingly attended to by a midwife and a doula. ...

Dear poets, we are privileged to live in an economy of no economy. Let me refine that: our economy is purely an intellectual one, not a financial one. I have no...

I would like to ask all of the bloggers the following questions: - Do you copyright your poems? Why or why not? - As a poet, what is your relationship to copyright...

Almost every day at Calabash, I'd grab my laptop and head down to a lounge chair at the edge of the sea (sorry) to commune with Harriet. Then, fortunately and...

For the entire day, a sheltering cloud settles over Treasure Beach, and when it rains, the thousand and a half people find shelter under the tent where poets and novelists...

It is just past midnight. From the seaward end of the tent, just at the edge of the stage with its rustic columns, its thatched roof, its gazebo-like utility when...