Harriet: News & Community
A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffAugust 1, 2018
"Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour was sentenced to five months in prison Tuesday by the Nazareth District court," reports Noa Shpigel for Israel's Haaretz. Tatour, 36, has been charged with incitement to...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffAugust 1, 2018
Morgan Parker talks about her forthcoming book, Magical Negro (February 2019, Tin House), with the good people at Shondaland. The poet also reveals the cover! "'Magical Negro'Â is such a strong,...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 31, 2018
At the New York Times, Dwight Garner reviews Donald Hall's first posthumously published book, A Carnival of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety. Hall died last month at the age of 89....
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 31, 2018
At Vogue, Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen: An American Lyric, and photographer John Lucas join Laura Regensdorf in a conversation about their collaborative exhibition, "Stamped," on view this summer at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn. The...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 31, 2018
At Boston Review, Dorothea Lasky's fifth book, Milk (Wave, 2018) is thoughtfully reviewed by Nathaniel Rosenthalis. Proclaiming the work the "fullest manifestation of [her] poetic persona yet," Rosenthalis also notes...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 31, 2018
Julie Marie Wade reviews Emily Pérez's House of Sugar, House of Stone (University Press of Colorado, 2016) for The Rumpus this week. "Once upon a time, I was a child reading this story,...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 30, 2018
In its latest upload, Jacket2's on-going series, "Reissues," celebrates Pages, edited by Robert Sheppard from 1987–1990. This Reissues release breaks with the standard format of the series, according to its introduction: "Rather...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 30, 2018
At Literary Hub, learn about Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad, who Jasmin Darznik explains was once known as, "the country’s most notorious woman." "Her poems were revolutionary: a radical bid for self-expression...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 30, 2018
Julie Marie Wade initiates a conversation with Bruce Beasley, formerly her instructor at Western Washington University and now a poet integral to her teaching and writing life, at The Rumpus....
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Open DoorBy David TrinidadJuly 30, 2018
On December 10, 1962, Sylvia Plath moved from Court Green, her home in Devon, England, to a flat at 23 Fitzroy Road in London.
