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A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMay 22, 2015
Over at The Message, Paul Ford highlights a recent publication, the "No Manifesto for Poetry Readings and Listservs and Magazines and 'Open Versatile Spaces Where Cultural Production Flourishes,' --after Yvonne...
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Letras Latinas's Ae Hee Lee Interviews Sheila Maldonado, Author of Newly Re-Printed one bedroom solo
By Harriet StaffMay 22, 2015At Letras Latinas Ae Hee Lee hosts longtime NYC-er, Sheila Maldonado, whose debut poetry collection one-bedroom solo was reprinted earlier this year. Maldonado is originally from Honduras: she grew up...
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Featured BloggerBy Lillian-Yvonne BertramMay 22, 2015
And so I would like to make it clear that I am going to talk about race. Again. I would like to make it clear that my writing about race,...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMay 22, 2015
Nikki Giovanni recently gave the keynote address at the 2015 Los Angeles Writers Conference. To tide us over until we can track that down, Los Angeles Review of Books has...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMay 22, 2015
An anonymous $200,000 gift will [hopefully] make way for greater diversity at the MacDowell Colony. The Chairman of the MacDowell Colony, Michael Chabon, announced the gift on Monday night. The...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMay 21, 2015
Kurt Seligmann, "Vanity of the Ancestors," 1940-43. If you like surrealist poetry and painting raise your hand. Since all of our hands are up, let's continue on to the City...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMay 21, 2015
The New Yorker profiles poet Paolo Javier, who served as the Poet Laureate of Queens, New York, from 2010 to 2014. (The search is apparently still open for a new...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMay 21, 2015
In the beginning, there was Printed Matter Lispenard Street, followed by Printed Matter Wooster Street, and now, Printed Matter is preparing for its next adventure: Eleventh Avenue. Yes that's right,...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMay 21, 2015
Left to right: Trisha Low, Holly Melgard, Joey Yearous-Algozin, Chris Sylvester Trisha Low focuses on the family in a new post for SFMoma's Open Space, writing on the issues of...
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Poetry NewsBy Michael SlosekMay 21, 2015
Photo by Arash Saedinia Today we're excited to release Solmaz Sharif's new poem "Persistence of Vision with Gwendolyn Brooks" on PoetryNow. The poem begins: In the rearview, fog extinguishes the hills...