Harriet: News & Community

As part of her course (co-taught with Ana Božičević) at Bruce High Quality Foundation University (BHQFU), "The Poetic Act," Sophia Le Fraga will be inviting participation in a social media...

If you're in Oakland or surrounding areas tomorrow evening, you'll want to stop by the Oakland Museum of California to check out a reading by Cedar Sigo, Juliana Spahr, and...

The first draft of Amiri Baraka's theatrical tribute to W.E.B. Dubois, "Most Dangerous Man (W.E.B. Dubois)," weighed in at 250 pages. The controversial page count (typically, theater artists follow a...

Last weekend, the Syrian-born poet, Adonis traveled from Paris to Varkala, a coastal town in Kerala, to receive the Kumaran Asan World Poetry Prize. Previous recipients of the award include...

Today on PoetryNow, Amber Atiya's "This Is a Shout Out (For the Tenants of the Red Little Building on Ocean Avenue)" makes its audio debut. The poem begins with a...

Joshua Edwards does us all a favor by introducing the work of Sara Nicholson as part of PSA's New American Poets Series, which annually "recognizes some of the most innovative...

The 2015 PEN Literary Awards have been announced! Congratulations go out to Saeed Jones for winning the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry ($5,000) for Prelude to Bruise (Coffee House Press)!...

Edge Effects contributor, Steel Wagstaff, explains the origins of the term "ecopoetics" and brings Lorine Niedecker's ecological writing practice into focus. From Edge Effects: I’m currently writing a dissertation for the...

Translator and poet Sophie Seita's book of "performance textuality," Fantasias in Counting (BlazeVOX Books, 2014) is reviewed by Ian Brinton at Tears in the Fence. Brinton also notes Seita's translation...

At Real Pants: poetry by Baltimore students from a recent Black Words Matter Write-In. This write-in took place just days after Mr. Freddie Gray died in Baltimore police custody: on...