Harriet: News & Community

Jason Teal joins Catherine Bresner, author of the empty season, in conversation at Fanzine, to discuss the ways that her newest book engages with, and questions, our preconceived notions about visual...

Heid E. Erdrich is the editor of New Poets in Native Nations, an anthology of Native American poets, and the author of Minnesota Book Award-winning poetry collection, Curator of Ephemera at...

For the July–August 2018 issue of PN Review, poet Vahni Capildeo interviews Loretta Collins Klobah, author of Ricantations (Peepal Tree Press, UK, 2018), a collection of poems where "New World English and Spanish...

In translation news: The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) has announced the longlists for the 2018 National Translation Awards (NTA) in Poetry and Prose, and among those nominated are many Harriet pals, including...

At KQED, Heather June Gibbons's first full-length poetry collection Her Mouth as Souvenir (University of Utah Press, 2018) is the subject of a review by Ingrid Rojas Contreras. According to Contreras,...

Literary Hub shares Michèle Mendelssohn's story about Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde's fateful encounter. "The 19th century was fixated on manhood. Much has been written about the constraints on Victorian women but gender...

Pussy Riot's intervention in yesterday's World Cup final game between Croatia and France directly invoked Russian poet, artist, and activist Dmitri Prigov, who died in 2007. Masha Gessen explores the...

James Lindsay interviews Montreal-based poet Klara du Plessis about her new book, Ekke (Palimpsest Press, Canada, 2018), for Open Book. The poems, writes Lindsay in the introduction, "treat translation like ekphrasis, exploring...

Brandon Brown's newest book, The Four Seasons (Wonder, 2018), is reviewed by Dylan Byron for 3:AM Magazine. "Longer than a midwinter day, but more compact than the lifespan of the...