Harriet: News & Community
A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJune 9, 2015
The brilliant poet and prose writer, Maggie Nelson, joins conversation with Bookforum to discuss her latest work: The Argonauts. This new work, which follows Nelson's previous literary accomplishments including Bluets...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJune 8, 2015
At the New York Times Magazine, writer Gideon Lewis-Kraus raises some interesting questions around machine translation--from WWII crytopgraphy to algorithms used by Google and Skype Translator to ideas of infidelity....
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Featured BloggerBy CAConradJune 8, 2015
for Timothy McNair and for The Mongrel Coalition Against Gringpo “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation and that is an act of political warfare.” --Audre Lorde The first time I heard...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJune 8, 2015
Are you ready? It's time for Small Press Traffic's annual barbecue-marathon-reading- fundraiser: Endless Summer! This year it takes place on June 27th. Out of towners can virtually participate by purchasing...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJune 8, 2015
The Rumpus interviewed Marge Piercy about her most recent collection, Made in Detroit! Dara Barnat had many queries around the reoccurring themes in the book, including family, intimacy, Judaism, and...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJune 8, 2015
At Pop Matters, Diane Leach looks at the new edition of Sandra Cisneros's My Wicked Wicked Ways, originally published in 1987 and "a poetic dispatch from the trenches of the...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJune 5, 2015
On the fourth floor of Barney Rosset's 4th Avenue apartment, a mural, 12 feet high and 22 feet long, stands as the Everygreen Review and Grove Press publisher's final pièce...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJune 5, 2015
Congratulations to Jane Munro who is the winner of the prestigious, Canadian literary award this year. Her most recent, and sixth collection of poetry, is Blue Sonoma. In the collection's...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJune 5, 2015
The new issue of The White Review is out, aglow with writing to not forget, particularly in this interview with Canadian artist and writer Moyra Davey, and new poems from...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJune 5, 2015
Open Culture points us toward a site called Poetry for Robots, "a joint effort between Neologic, Webvisions, and The Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University," that...