Harriet: News & Community
A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 15, 2018
Rhode Island poet laureate Tina Cane introduces the state's first deputy youth poetry ambassador, Kiani Pope, in a feature published at Providence Journal. Pope writes, "I don’t write poetry. I...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 12, 2018
Kimberly Ann Priest reviews Lasky's latest collection, Milk, published by Wave Books earlier this year. Priest writes, "[w]hy do I love this?! Why do I read this book and just...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 12, 2018
Katy Waldman makes sure we remember that the year-old #MeToo movement is a literary one. After moving through some of the more recognizable downfalls, like Junot Díaz, [the work of] Philip...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 12, 2018
Jill Fletcher contributes an article at Edutopia about contemporary poetry's value in the classroom. Her article, "The Value of Teaching Contemporary Poetry," reveals opportunities "to find deep personal and cultural...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 12, 2018
At the National Endowment for the Arts's blog, Art Works, Anna Deeny Morales talks about translating Raúl Zurita and Gabriela Mistral. "Anna Deeny Morales came to literary translation through fortuitous circumstances that...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 11, 2018
Beth Bachmann is jointly interviewed by Blas Falconer and Helena Mesa for The Rumpus. Bachmann reflects on the architecture of her third book, CEASE (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018): Bachmann: Robert Duncan is a huge guiding...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 11, 2018
At Jacket2, William J. Harris reviews What Is Poetry? (Just Kidding, I Know You Know): Interviews from ‘The Poetry Project Newsletter’ (1983–2009) (Wave Books, 2017), edited by Anselm Berrigan. "[T]his big white book edited...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 11, 2018
In the New Yorker, Daniel Mendelsohn writes about the reverence for Virgil's "very real achievement represented by one poem in particular: the Aeneid, a heroic epic in twelve chapters (or “books”)...
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From Poetry MagazineBy John Lee ClarkOctober 11, 2018
Each month we feature a guest post from a contributor to Poetry’s current issue.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 10, 2018
Joshua Wolf Shenk at The Believer asks Morgan Parker about "facts and truth and the literary imagination," as well as how she reads the newspaper: MP: It all feels imaginary—that’s the thing. It’s weird....
