Harriet: News & Community

While traditionally, libraries are considered sanctuaries for quiet, peaceful contemplation: many are adopting behaviors common to social media as a way to stay relevant in the digital age. One trick,...

[Note: Each month we feature a guest post from a contributor to Poetry’s current issue. Karen Solie’s “Bitumen” appears in the May 2015 issue. Previous posts in this series can...

This month at OmniVerse, Lisa Wells interviews Mary Hickman. They talk about Hickman's poetry, heart surgery, flesh and painting, Frankenstein, and the spiritual. Because we're always interested in the day...

Tracy K. Smith's new memoir begins with the death of her mother, to whom the book is dedicated, then zooms back to her early years coming of age as an...

While we were out group-blogging for National Poetry Month, poetry news kept a'churning. One item we read in April that we bookmarked for re-blogging come May was the announcement of...

I interviewed Elana Chavez and Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta on March 28th in Oakland, California about their new Cantíl Reading Series, which features only poets of color. We met at “Books for...

With a tip of the hat to Elaine Kahn and her mix-tape posts on Harriet, here's a mix-tape of some of my favorite comic poems. I'm calling these selections LulzPo,...

Happy to bookend my  posts with another message from the Mongrel Coalition Against Gringpo: Some of these books have been published under different titles, but we understand it's hard to...

10. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy And Its Consequences- John Allen Paulos I think I borrowed this book from my Dad in the 80s. There are roughly 7 billion people living today, every...

Street art in Paris is increasingly approachable, if not palatable—even potable. Someone had left a can of Dr. Pepper in front of Ender’s brooding angel (in my previous post), as...