Harriet: News & Community
A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffAugust 21, 2018
The New York Times featured Rebecca Solnit in its By the Book series last week. Solnit, the editors write, "keeps an eye on the 'daily eruptions of the internet': 'Like...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffAugust 21, 2018
Emily Sieu Liebowitz's first collection, National Park (Gramma Press, 2018), has been reviewed at Publishers Weekly! "Liebowitz revels in the pleasures of both experimental and conventional poetic gestures in her debut,"...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffAugust 20, 2018
The poet Tom Clark passed away unexpectedly on Friday after being struck by a car while crossing the street in North Berkeley, according to Berkeleyside. It reported on the collision before Clark...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffAugust 20, 2018
Andrew Byrds interviews Lisa Marie Basile, founder of Luna Luna and author of Light Magic for Dark Times (Fair Winds Press, 2018), for Entropy. There's a chapter in the book "devoted to writing...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffAugust 20, 2018
Jos Charles, author of the new collection, Feeld (Milkweed, 2018), answers 10 questions at Poets & Writers for the current issue: "What are you reading right now?" ask the good P&W...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffAugust 20, 2018
Poet Marisa Crawford is spotlit at ANDREA BLYTHE: Speculative Poetry and Fiction, talking "pop culture, feminism, and the value of emotional knowledge." Crawford's most recent collection is Reversible (Switchback Books, 2017). Crawford is...
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Featured BloggerBy Diana ArterianAugust 20, 2018
Diana Khoi Nguyen’s first collection of poetry, Ghost Of, engages with monuments that narratives of familial tragedy erect.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffAugust 17, 2018
Dominick Knowles reveals details about the intersections of communism and poetry at Viewpoint Magazine, with an eye toward the poetry of George Oppen: "Just after publishing his first book, Discrete Series (1934), the...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffAugust 17, 2018
Stefan Milne of Seattle Met interviews Quenton Baker, the poet behind a new installation at Seattle's Frye Art Museum. "Seattle poet Quenton Baker’s Ballast examines the 1841 revolt aboard the Creole—the most successful on...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffAugust 17, 2018
At PBS NewsHour, learn more about Ada Limón’s book The Carrying, very recently published by Milkweed Editions. The collection, as Jennifer Hijazi reports, "is about the contradictory joys and burdens we all...
