Harriet: News & Community

From 1912-1955, William Carlos Williams delivered approximately 3,000 infants into Rutherford homes and at Passaic General Hospital. (He was on staff at Passaic General Hospital for over 40 years.) Now,...

Summer's heating up! If you're still deciding what to read next, check out Jeff Gordinier's New York Times review of two new collections by Nick Flynn and Ron Padgett. Gordinier...

At the Asian American Writers' Workshop blog, The Margins, "no-single-medium man" Tan Lin discusses his 2011 book, Insomnia and the Aunt (Kenning Editions), "which explores the relationship between technology, television,...

Coming soon: Deliquent Films' The Book of Conrad, a long-awaited feature documentary about our friend, poet CAConrad, who, over 82 scenic minutes, "confronts his violent past and the suspicious death...

How do we move forward after the Charleston Massacre? DéLana R.A. Dameron at LARB regroups with Kwame Dawes to reflect on Charleston's "psychic landscape." After Dameron asks Dawes "What...

Blunt Research Group's point is anything but dull: the anonymous collective's current investigative poetics deals with case files of the earliest youth prisons in California. Already published at Chicago Review,...

This morning we heard the very sad news that poet and UMass professor James Tate has died at the age of 71. Gazettenet reports: Acclaimed poet James Tate, a distinguished professor...

Arkava Das at Jacket2 claims that Simon Jarvis's The Unconditional: A Lyric (Barque Press, 2005) might be The Waste Land of our times, "only unsung, and way longer." Who knew?...

Printed Matter LLC has a new Executive Director according to the organization's recent news blast... it's Max Schumann! Schumann began at Printed Matter as a book packer in 1989 and...

Rae Armantrout is interviewed at Literary Hub! The poet talks with Adam Fitzgerald about her newest book, Itself (Wesleyan), and its relationship to philosophy, science, and the words, um, themselves:...