Harriet: News & Community
A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJune 13, 2019
The Sackner Archive of Visual and Concrete Poetry, founded in 1979 in Miami Beach, FL, and containing over 75,000 items that document the concrete poetry movement, has been in temporary housing in...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJune 13, 2019
Ocean Vuong travels across the pond to read from his new novel, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, at the Southbank Centre on July 2.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJune 13, 2019
We're saddened to hear that the poet, novelist, and non-fiction author Michael Rumaker, who intersected with Beat-era poets, attended Black Mountain College, and found inspiration in Act-Up Demonstrations of the 1980s, has died...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJune 13, 2019
University of Warwick PhD student Julian Richards found a love poem written by Siegfried Sassoon.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJune 12, 2019
At the Washington Post, Rebekah Frumkin explains, "Ives’s hilarious novel 'Loudermilk or The Real Poet or The Origin of the World' borrows its premise from Edmond Rostand’s 'Cyrano de Bergerac'."
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJune 12, 2019
At Los Angeles Review of Books, Kuipers begins his review of Ragged Anthem thinking about the durability of our nation and the various ways that Dombrowski and other writers have reflected...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJune 12, 2019
Anne Boyer's forthcoming nonfiction book, The Undying: A Meditation on Modern Illness (FSG, August), has just received a starred review at Publishers Weekly!
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJune 12, 2019
At Lit Hub, Harmony Holiday considers the mythic friendship of poet and writer Henry Dumas and "poet and pianist and mythscientist Sun Ra."
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJune 11, 2019
Nate Preus reviews Jasper Bernes's The Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization (Stanford University Press, 2017) for Jacket2.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJune 11, 2019
For his blog Crystal Set, scholar and poet Nick Sturm gives some overdue attention to New York School poet Steve Carey.
