Harriet: News & Community

Anne Boyer's essay about Missy Elliott, "4 the People"—from A Handbook of Disappointed Fate (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018)—is excerpted in this month's Harper's! "Everyone knows that where 'WTF (Where They From)' comes from is...

Brandon Brown reviews Diana Hamilton's The Awful Truth (Golias Books, 2017) for Entropy, placing the book in a space he calls "dream lit." "The opposing pulls of writing and reading dreams, deeply personal...

Download with me, if you will, the cyclical discourse of poetry’s death.

The Guardian's Ben Wilkinson reviews the Billy Collins collection, Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems, published here in 2013 and quite recently in the UK (Picador). "Though we calculate between its revivifying...

Howard A. Rodman's new essay at the Los Angeles Review of Books explores the phrase "career of evil," through the work of "Lautréamont, J. K. Rowling, with Stops at Patti Smith...

At the Irish Times, Stanley Townsend tells Rosita Boland what it's like to learn Paul Muldoon's poem "Incantata" in preparation for performance on stage. Foregrounding their conversation, Boland explains that...

At the Washington Post, Elizabeth Lund reads new work by Terrance Hayes, Tony Hoagland, Laurie L. Patton, and Grady Chambers. In response to Hayes's book, Lund writes: "Terrance Hayes reinvigorates...

August Evans takes a good look at artist Ellen Rothenberg's SHADOWED!, published by Chicago's Green Lantern Press this year as "a book that is far more than a book"; within its...

Learn about El Salvadoran poet Leticia Hernández-Linares and the history of San Francisco's Mission District from her conversation with Therese Marie Konopelski, recently published at the Letras Latinas blog. Their conversation marks...