Harriet: News & Community
A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffAugust 3, 2018
Today at The Rumpus, Barbara Berman reviews two new poetry titles, the anthology Bullets into Bells: Poets and Citizens Respond to Gun Violence (Beacon Press, 2017) and Kazim Ali's latest,...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffAugust 3, 2018
BK Fischer reviews Lyn Hejinian's under-discussed The Unfollowing (Omnidawn, 2016) for Jacket2. Fischer begins by considering the non sequitur as a poetic device. "A skeptic might call it 'disjunctivitis': how much resistance can...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffAugust 3, 2018
Jennifer Hijazi introduces PBS NewsHour viewers to Jos Charles, author of Safe Space (Ahsahta Press, 2016) and feeld (Milkweed Editions, forthcoming September 2018), and a 2016 recipient of the Ruth Lilly and...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffAugust 2, 2018
The Nation poetry editors published a poem in early July, "How-To," by the Minneapolis poet Anders Carlson-Wee. It's wreaked some havoc: "[S]eemingly written in the voice of a homeless person begging for...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffAugust 2, 2018
Kevin Young hosts Nicole Sealey, the executive director of Cave Canem and author of Ordinary Beast on the New Yorker's poetry podcast. Sealey brings to the conversation her poem, "A Violence,"...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffAugust 2, 2018
For Berfrois, Devin King reviews Lindsay Turner's first book, Songs and Ballads (Prelude Books, 2018), noting the 21 poems with the word "song" in the title. "Why so many songs?...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffAugust 2, 2018
Jericho Brown is interviewed at The Guardian about his second collection, The New Testament (Copper Canyon). The book, "written in a spirit of tense lamentation, urgently addresses what it is to be...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffAugust 1, 2018
At the Washington Post, Elizabeth Lund reviews writing by Nicole Cooley, Anne Waldman, Elizabeth Spires, and a new anthology of Native-American writing edited by Heid E. Erdrich. "The best new poetry explores our passions,"...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffAugust 1, 2018
Each year, the National Student Poets Program awards $5,000 to a select number of high school sophomores and juniors, chosen from thousands, who exhibit exceptional verse. The annual award is the result...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffAugust 1, 2018
You know Ginsy was one of the best minds of his generation when it came to writing verse, but did you know he was a whiz when it came to...
