Harriet: News & Community
A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 27, 2018
Nick Ripatrazone writes about nun and poet Sister Mary Bernetta Quinn, in an article recently published at Literary Hub. "On Good Friday, 1934, 18-year-old Viola Roselyn Quinn felt inspired by the...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 27, 2018
Terrance Hayes and The Rumpus Poetry Book Club have a chat about the poet's newest collection, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin (Penguin Books), wherein each poem is titular (side note: we did feature...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 27, 2018
At ArabLit, Hend Saeed and Ghareeb Iskander talk about responsibility and care when translating between English and Arabic. To introduce their conversation, Saeed writes, "After reading Gilgamesh’s Snake, I followed Iskander and...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 27, 2018
Although only a few poets remain from the generation making up the New American Poets, many of the locations that they visited still stand. At the Bay Area Reporter, Mike...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 26, 2018
Poet Ada Limón speaks with Diana Delgado at Guernica about her new book The Carrying (forthcoming from Milkweed Editions), "but also about her new life, what it means to wander and to take risks."...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 26, 2018
Lauren Levin, the author of the forthcoming poetry collection Justice Piece // Transmission (Timeless Infinite Light, 2018), is the subject of a piece at Michigan Quarterly Review. In conversation with Kevin...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 26, 2018
Sarah Resnick reviews poet and translator Anna Moschovakis's soon-out first novel, Eleanor, or The Rejection of the Progress of Love (Coffee House, 2018), for Frieze! "Unmoored, flittering Eleanor," writes Resnick of the protagonist. More...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 26, 2018
Poet and writer Camille Roy contributes to SFMOMA's Open Space series, "Life Blasted Open," organized by Eric Sneathen and Gordon Faylor, with a new piece around grief called "Reading My...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 25, 2018
Jennifer Hijazi discusses Graywolf's recent New Poets of Native Nations anthology at PBS NewsHour, focusing her lens on two specific poems in the anthology, one by Laura Da’ and one by...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 25, 2018
Today at the Paris Review, Patricio Ferrari, editor and co-translator of Alejandra Pizarnik's French poems The Galloping Hour (New Directions, 2018), provides readers with useful biographical and literary-historical context for...
