Harriet: News & Community
A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMay 22, 2019
Carolyn Forché's first book of narrative nonfiction, What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance (Penguin), is reviewed at Longreads.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMay 21, 2019
Allen Ginsberg composed many of his poems while traveling the world.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMay 21, 2019
Poets Khadijah Queen and Jillian Weise have curated two segments of poems for the New York Times' "Disability series."
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMay 21, 2019
We're saddened to hear that the poet (and visual artist, and novelist) Nanni Balestrini has died. He was 83. Artforum shared this news with readers: Nanni Balestrini, the radical Italian experimental visual...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMay 21, 2019
At LARB, poet and novelist Nii Ayikwei Parkes talks to Tom Zoellner about his novel, Tail of the Blue Bird.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMay 21, 2019
Kevin Killian reflects on the life of conceptual artist Lutz Bacher (1943–2019), who died on May 14, for Frieze.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMay 20, 2019
The Millions has the latest on the Best Translated Book Awards!
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMay 20, 2019
In this excerpt from Go Ahead In The Rain: Notes To A Tribe Called Quest, Abdurraqib reveals his love of sneakers while considering the process of building a collection and ultimately letting go.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMay 20, 2019
The Chemical Brothers have a new album in the world, No Geography, and it samples a few recordings from the "Dial-A-Poem" series.
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Featured BloggerBy Lotte L.S.May 20, 2019
How broad can something be; how much can a form hold before the form is compromised; how inclusive can a poem, a movement, an insurrection be before its “aim” is...
