Harriet: News & Community

It was fairly easy to create a playlist for our April 2015 issue because so many of the poems mentioned particular songs, albums, and artists. This month, our editorial assistant...

It's Friday quiz time! Lucky for us it's a poetry quiz. Doubly lucky is our handy-dandy cheat sheet, otherwise known as the Online Archive. But please don't cheat... really. From...

George Quasha is back for round two of his "poetry is (Speaking Portraits)" project, a "portraiture with poetics" that features over 75 poets individually recorded as they consider evolving views...

Do yourself a solid today and have a listen to this great interview with poet, music aficionado, and Ruth Lilly Prize winner Nathaniel Mackey. Mackey converses with Frank Stasio "about...

Hyperallergic reports that the NYC Council voted and approved the fiscal year 2016 budget this week, which includes a $39 million-dollar boost for NYC libraries. More: In a deal...

At Locus Solus Andrew Epstein reveals James Merrill's rather unexpected connection to the New York School. Although Merrill "operated at some distance from the avant-garde of his day," his ties...

At Hyperallergic, Megan N. Liberty gives Jean-Michel Basquiat the writer his due, referencing the current show at Brooklyn Museum, The Unknown Notebooks. "Seeing and reading the pages in the gallery...

A thousand different readers of a poem make a thousand different poems. The creativity in the reading percolates through the same membrane as the writing. (Soma)tic reading enhancements like (Soma)tic...

Today on PoetryNow David Tomas Martinez's new poem "Us vs Them" brings us some Sputniks, the Black Panthers, both Nixon AND Reagan, with a healthy dose of Duck and Cover....

Did you know that now there is a public database of contemporary, socially-engaged poetry? It's true! It just launched! The Quarry comes to you courtesy of Split This Rock: a...