Harriet: News & Community
A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 11, 2018
Jennifer Hijazi discusses the results of the NEA's recent survey, which revealed that poetry is being read and written by Americans at record rates, in an article published at PBS NewsHour....
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 11, 2018
For the New Yorker's Culture Desk, Gareth Smit explores the New York Public Library's Berg Reading Room–home of the Berg Collection. Here, the library stores physical artifacts that once belonged...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 11, 2018
Artforum senior editor Lauren O’Neill-Butler interviews writer and artist Adrian Piper—whose current retrospective is on view at MoMA until July 22—for the New York Times opinion column, "The Stone." They discuss the relationship...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 11, 2018
For Frieze, Lucy Ives writes about the "visionary cybernetics" of the late poet, architect, and artist Madeline Gins, and her reimagined novel, "one of the most important works of experimental prose of...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 11, 2018
Liu Xia, poet and widow of Nobel Laureate and Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, has been released from Beijing after eight years of house arrest. Liu arrived in Berlin today, and is reportedly...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 10, 2018
Glenn Roberts Jr. of Berkeley Lab shares the story of two poets, Kate Greene and Anastasios Karnazes, who share a love of science and verse. They recently visited the university's 88-inch Cyclotron. "What happens...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 10, 2018
At Jacket2, Jared Stanley discusses his engagement with Joanne Kyger's work, placing special emphasis on her cross-disciplinary explorations. "Why start a series on ruptures and dissimilarity in poetic practice with...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 9, 2018
Martinican poet Aimé Césaire is the subject of an article by David B. Hobbs published at The Nation. Hobbs's article focuses on three recent translations of Césaire, and on the renewed interest in...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 9, 2018
U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith talks to Nylon Magazine about her traveling project "Every America," her newest book, Wade in the Water (Graywolf Press, 2018), the politics of poetry, and more. "Issues are...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 9, 2018
At the New York Times, Daisy Fried reviews new collections of poetry by women authors that delve into themes ranging from mortality to sex. Fried begins by introducing readers to Diane...
