Harriet: News & Community
A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffAugust 31, 2018
Read Maya Salam's contribution to the New York Times's series "Gender Letter" and consider the intersections of poetry and photography at the beginning or tail end of this holiday weekend. "Most of...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffAugust 30, 2018
Paris Review Daily Correspondent Anthony Madrid discusses three translations of Ovid's Metamorphoses in his latest contribution. "Fact: there were, between 1550 and 1750, exactly three supremo-supremo English versions of Ovid’s Metamorphoses," he begins. From...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffAugust 30, 2018
Jasmine Gibson, author of Drapetomania (Commune Editions, 2015) and Don't Let Them See Me Like This (Nightboat Books, 2018), is in conversation with Zaina Alsous for The Adroit Journal. "Hearing Gibson read her work confirmed the...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffAugust 29, 2018
Now in its 24th year, the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards are bestowed to women writers whose work contributes to culture and society. According to their press release, "The 2018 winners...