Harriet: News & Community
A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Featured BloggerBy jayy doddJuly 9, 2018
You could imagine me a poet. But how do you imagine my hands, my mind making?
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 6, 2018
At The Margins, Paisley Rekdal recalibrates William Logan's recent review of Ocean Vuong's Night Sky With Exit Wounds (Copper Canyon, 2016). Her anger over the review, Rekdal explains, is mostly over a...
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From Poetry MagazineBy Lynn MelnickJuly 6, 2018
For our July/August 2018 playlist, we asked contributor Lynn Melnick to curate a selection of music for us.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 6, 2018
In "Poetry Rx," the Paris Review's "Resident Poets," Sarah Kay, Kaveh Akbar, and Claire Schwartz, respond to readers' emotions ... with poetry prescriptions. For instance, a Louise Glück poem, "Matins," goes...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 5, 2018
At the New Yorker, A. T. McWilliams discusses a poem written in 2016 by then-15-year-old Antwon Rose, who, at 17, became "the four hundred and ninety-first person killed by police in...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 5, 2018
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I. At the New York Times, Adin Dobkin profiles poet Alan Seeger, who romanticized "the war to end all wars"...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 5, 2018
As you may know, the Nobel Prize for Literature will not be given out this year. But an alternative is in sight. The Guardian reports that a Swedish group called the...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 5, 2018
Poets & Writers staff has 10 questions for Jasmine Gibson, whose debut poetry collection, Don’t Let Them See Me Like This, is out this month from Nightboat Books. From the intro: "In...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 3, 2018
At the New York Times, David Kirby reviews Matthew Dickman's Wonderland (Norton, 2018), drawing readers' attention to "Dickman’s clarity and ability to engage." Dickman's new volume is "devoted almost entirely to...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 3, 2018
In an article recently published at the New Republic, Benjamin Kunkel reveals elements of Pablo Neruda's adolescence that are similar to the proclivities of young poets today: his tendency to...
