Harriet: News & Community
A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Featured BloggerBy Cassandra TroyanMay 1, 2015
Carrie: i'm reading your piece on tract – trace "The ground is like a bad omen. You can drag a stone back to the place of departure and still be stuck in...
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Featured BloggerBy Philip JenksMay 1, 2015
"If we are not ready to shoot a saboteur and White Guardist, what sort of revolution is that?” (Vladamir Lenin, qtd. in Fitzpatrick, Sheila. The Russian Revolution. Oxford University Press. New...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffApril 30, 2015
We did it again! We overloaded on posts and will be carrying over National Poetry Month 2015 into May. But, unfortunately, we'll be finishing up the postings tomorrow. Back to...
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Featured BloggerBy John SakkisApril 30, 2015
6. Demo To Ink- Ron Silliman Chax Press Laura Moriarty was definitely there, we were standing in a group on the field at Woodside Elementary in Concord. Brandon Brown was probably there,...
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Featured BloggerBy Jericho BrownApril 30, 2015
Dear Wolf Blitzer: This is the kind of thing that breaks an American poet’s heart. This from a so-called “liberal” news affiliate! I have avoided writing to you or to any of...
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Featured BloggerBy Noel BlackApril 30, 2015
So the death of the author was exaggerated. To misquote Donald Barthelme, Roland Barthes was a farthes. Let’s review: [...] in primitive societies, narrative is never undertaken by a person, but...
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Featured BloggerBy Andrew ZawackiApril 30, 2015
Graffiti is always already camera ready—always was. “We decided to take the train to Baychester station,” Lee of the Fabulous Five told Craig Castleman, in a long interview that begins...
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Featured BloggerBy Yolanda WisherApril 30, 2015
So I put this question out on my Facebook page: What is the state of poetry in Philadelphia? Feels like it should be an ongoing Philly forehead-feeling kind of endeavor...
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Featured BloggerBy Brandon ShimodaApril 30, 2015
I became the corpse, because—and then, it floats away again. —Alice Notley, In the Pines recall, translucent and disposable, the remaining corpses. —Roberto Tejada, Lost Continent And one day the age will rise, Like a...
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Featured BloggerBy Trisha LowApril 30, 2015
Elaine Kahn and I have a long-standing agreement that either of us can flake on any scheduled date we have to hang out because of reasons of emotional distress and/or...