Harriet: News & Community
A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 30, 2015
At Paris Review Daily, Rick Moody encounters Paul Metcalf's innovative novel Genoa, "something that feels completely new." The book, originally published in 1965 by Jonathan Williams's Jargon Society, has just...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 29, 2015
Trace Peterson is featured in the latest episode of NewsHour for bringing something new to poetry—a college course that doesn't merely approach "transgender subject matter as theory, or as types...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 29, 2015
For the North Carolina-based publication, Indy Week, Duke University PhD candidate and poet, Laura Jaramillo, gives a thoughtful overview of Nathaniel Mackey's newest, New Directions-published collection, Blue Fasa. She writes:...
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From Poetry MagazineBy Tim KinsellaJuly 29, 2015
Note: Poetry has begun an occasional series of playlists for recent issues. This month, Chicago musician and author Tim Kinsella curated a selection of music for the July/August 2015 issue. Click...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 29, 2015
VIDA announces a new fellowship to The Home School! As you might know, The Home School hosts an annual six-day intensive writing conference for poets "interested in radicalizing their poetic...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 29, 2015
At Gathering of the Tribes, a review of Tonya Foster's new book, A Swarm of Bees in High Court (Belladonna 2015)! Patricia Spears Jones recalls an influential image for Foster,...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 28, 2015
At Divedapper, our new favorite summer time interviews-with-poets website, Kaveh Akbar spends a moment talking with Natalie Diaz. Diaz, Lannan-fellow, Fort Mojave Language Recovery Program Director, and an enrolled member...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 28, 2015
Boston Review has posted a handful of micro-reviews for their Summer Poetry Reads, looking at Gentlessness, by Dan Beachy-Quick (Tupelo Press); They Don’t Kill You Because They’re Hungry, They Kill...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 28, 2015
As we continue to celebrate the 100th year anniversary of the Spoon River Anthology, we're thrilled to see Chris Mustazza and the folks at PennSound bring out newly digitized audio...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 28, 2015
Forward's Julia M. Klein delves into Maxine Kumin's posthumous memoir, The Pawnbroker's Daughter, and characterizes Kumin as a poet who "would triumph over her terror and produce distinctive conversational verse...