Harriet: News & Community
A literary blog about poetry and related news
-
Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 14, 2015
A resident of Chicago, Ladan Osman is the author of The Kitchen Dweller's Testimony selected for the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets in 2014. Our dear readers may...
-
Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 14, 2015
Finally, a new literary journal devoted solely to interviews! The newest literary powerhouse, Divedapper, is edited by Kaveh Akbar (rhymes with "snack bar," as he puts it). If you've got...
-
Poetry NewsBy Michael SlosekJuly 14, 2015
When Alice Notley was in Chicago this past June to accept the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, we invited her to our studio to read a new poem and talk a...
-
Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 14, 2015
James Gibbons reviews John Ashbery's new book, Breezeway (HarperCollins/Ecco), for Hyperallergic: "[Ashbery's] writerly game is indulgence (in the sense of aesthetic pleasure, without the puritanical connotations of decadent excess), his...
-
Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 13, 2015
The Library of Congress has published an interview with Dawn Lundy Martin! In "Why Do We Speak a False Language?" Anya Creightney talks with Martin about the black female body,...
-
Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 13, 2015
If you've heard of South Dakota Review or considered studying poetry at the University of South Dakota then you've almost certainly heard of Lee Ann Roripaugh. Roripaugh has been announced...
-
Featured BloggerBy Jon LeonJuly 13, 2015
Kowloon Walled City Kowloon Walled City, City of Darkness, Dice City, Vice City. Intermediate space, the space between zones. When I first got into interior design I found some images...
-
Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 13, 2015
NPR's "Book Reviews" revisits the prolific American poet, James Tate, who passed away just last week at the age of 71. Tate's 17th full-length collection of poetry, Dome of the...
-
Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 13, 2015
Poet and Boston Review poetry editor Stefania Heim recently took a turn as guest curator for Poetry International, where she considers time as apprehended in language and translation, and representations...
-
Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJuly 10, 2015
At Jacket2, Kristin Dykstra notes that her series Intermedium "tracks recognitions and convergences that give rise to bodies of work in translation." In her most recent addition, "Line to List,"...
