Harriet: News & Community

This weekend saw the unfolding of outrage over Vanessa Place's Twitter account, a project that (as we've noted previously) has been transcribing the entirety of Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the...

At the Boston Review, the awesome Diana Arterian reviews Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts: "Where most writers would hold back, Nelson lopes forward: 'I was ashamed, but undaunted (my epithet?).'” More: As...

“There are times when scandal feels like the sun that race revolves around.” –The Racial Imaginary “The white writer feels injured in this moment—misunderstood and wounded—and believes it is the reader,...

What could be better than a cup of coffee? A cup of coffee AND poetry of course! The Nomadic Ground Poets-in-the-Coffee series, edited by Virginia Barrett, ensures that an awakened,...

The online mag Gigantic Sequins has a great opportunity for the younger set. For a new online feature, they are seeking submissions of poems from teenage writers ages 14 through...

Hyperallergic and Artforum both report that the entire first-year MFA class of USC's Roski School of Art has dropped out of the program in protest of current conditions. "The group...

Hyperallergic brings news about a new website that translates words into drum beats. Typedrummer, created by Kyle Stetz, features a basic, easy-to-use user interface that invites participants to type a...

A new study conducted by researchers at Johns Hopkins, Rice, and Columbia Universities reveals that written and spoken language can function independent of one another because those impulses occur from...

Yesterday we were saddened by the news of Franz Wright's death at the age of 62. SF Gate reports "His friend Alex Green, owner of Back Pages Books in Waltham,...

Lucky us: Feng Sun Chen's latest book, The 8th House (Black Ocean 2015) is reviewed by J. Fossenbell for The Volta Blog. "Feng Sun Chen’s latest collection of poems traces...