Harriet: News & Community

To not know what you are doing is the not the worst thing. The worst thing is to be part of something that is not revolutionary.

Stray: A Graphic Tone "pairs two poets who are experts of sound, language, and archive — Nathaniel Mackey and Susan Howe."

Frieze Senior Editor (and author) Andrew Durbin recalls his first meeting with Kevin Killian, the letters that preceded and the friendship that followed.

We are beyond sad that poet, novelist, playwright, art critic, scholar, prolific Amazon reviewer, and collaborator and friend to scores of artists, Kevin Killian, died this past weekend.

Poet and writer Diana Arterian reviews Ariana Reines's new collection, A Sand Book (Tin House, 2019), for the New York Times.

En route to Boston, John Yau reads Ron Padgett's latest collection, Big Cabin (Coffeehouse Press, 2019).

We were delighted to learn Joy Harjo has been appointed by the Library of Congress as poet laureate of the United States.

At Literary Hub, learn about the life experience that brought about John James's first collection of poetry, The Milk Hours (Milkweed Editions).

Editor and writer Rob Spillman reports from the 1,800-mile Poetry to the People Tour.

At Paris Review, Ocean Vuong writes, "I was never comfortable being male—being a he—because all my life being a man was inextricable from hegemonic masculinity."