Harriet: News & Community
A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJune 7, 2019
Clancy Martin takes Adrienne Rich's 1995 book, On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978 (Norton), for a spin in Bookforum's summer issue.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJune 7, 2019
Last night in Toronto, Don Mee Choi (as translator of Kim Hyesoon) and Eve Joseph were honored as the international and Canadian winners of the 2019 Griffin Poetry Prize, respectively.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJune 7, 2019
Manchester Metropolitan University's Sam Illingworth divulges the names of a few creatives whose practices blurred the lines between science and poetry.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJune 6, 2019
The celebration announcing the winners of the 31st Lambda Literary Awards (aka the Lammys) were held this week at NYU's Skirball Center.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJune 6, 2019
Leslie Contreras Schwartz is the fourth poet laureate to guide the city of Houston, Texas in all things verse.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJune 6, 2019
At Slate, read an excerpt from Stephanie Burt's new book Don’t Read Poetry: A Book About How to Read Poems which takes a close look at Terrance Hayes's recent collection.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJune 6, 2019
Kat Chow drives with Ocean Vuong around the area of Connecticut where they both grew up, a few years apart, in her profile of Vuong published at The Atlantic.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJune 6, 2019
The Emily Dickinson Museum, located in Amherst, MA, has received a $22 million gift as part of a larger bequest to Amherst College from the late alumnus, William McC. Vickery.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJune 6, 2019
"This year, for the first time in my life, I have fasted for all of Ramazan," writes Kaveh Akbar in a new piece for the Paris Review Daily.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJune 5, 2019
Neon Pajamas interviews Ana Božičević, author of, most recently, Joy of Missing Out (Birds, LLC, 2017).
