Harriet: News & Community

The Bryant Park Reading Room recently hosted a celebration for the winners of this year's Whiting Foundation Awards. Each year, the Whiting Foundation awards $50,000 to ten emerging writers. At...

"Mahabharata!" "Mahabharata!" Um. What do you get when you cross Fox News with a "world-famous magician" explaining Christian Bök's Eunoia? "It's a ship in a bottle," says Penn Jillette. "There's...

Boston's NPR affiliate, WBUR, checked out the Boston Poetry Marathon this weekend. This year, the marathon was organized by Jim Behrle, Mitch Manning, Audrey Mardavich and John Mulrooney; it was...

On Friday we saw several people on Facebook posting Google translations of reviews from publications across Swedish media of Aase Berg's latest collection Hackers. Over the weekend Johannes Göransson, who...

Jennifer Kraskinski writes for Artforum about Wayne Koestenbaum's recent walk around the East Village, billed as “Marking Marks,” and led in homage to Frank O’Hara’s 1953 poem “Second Avenue.” "We...

The erudite (if we do say so ourselves) readers of Harriet know that poetry is for the people (all people) but in London, well, that climate may not be the...

Feeling fine, Fiennes. Hm? The New Yorker has found Shakespeare's lost weed sonnets? Something like that. They quote The Telegraph: "South African scientists have discovered that 400-year-old tobacco pipes excavated...

At Language Magazine, Chris Colderley and Kwame Alexander discuss the value of reading poetry everyday and writing it, too. More: My mother was a storyteller. A weaver of funny tales, who, with...

Richard Blanco is no stranger to poetry assignments, having already penned "One Today" for president Obama's second inauguration. Now he's back with a new assignment: to write a new poem...

Half a century after the Watts uprising, "we still haven't learned," says The New York Times. But in the wake of the 50th anniversary of Watts is some important conversation--mostly...