Harriet: News & Community
A literary blog about poetry and related news
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From Poetry MagazineBy Lindsay GarbuttApril 1, 2015
In celebration of National Poetry Month, we’re offering lots of freebies to help you get through the cruelest month. First and foremost: the April 2015 issue of Poetry is free...
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Featured BloggerBy Cynthia CruzApril 1, 2015
My brother and I I am currently at work on a book based on Ingeborg Bachmann’s quote (from her novel, The Thirtieth Year), “Keine neue Welt ohne Neue Sprache” (no...
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Featured BloggerBy Trisha LowApril 1, 2015
I guess I’m obligated to say happy (happy?) National Poetry Month but let’s be real, this April is going to be kind of a rough one. It’s been a shitty...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 31, 2015
At The New Yorker, Alice Gregory writes about poet and essayist Sarah Manguso, and her newest work, Ongoingness: The End of a Diary, in which Manguso confronts the "dark matter"--the...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 31, 2015
At Publisher's Weekly, Craig Morgan Teicher reviews Tracy K. Smith's newest book (officially out today, in fact), a memoir called Ordinary Light (Knopf 2015). "Ordinary Life begins with a harrowing...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 31, 2015
Congratulations to Sjohnna McCray: winner of this year's Walt Whitman Award! The Academy of American Poets presents the Walt Whitman Award each year to one poet of exceptional promise. Sjohnna...
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Featured BloggerBy Elaine KahnMarch 31, 2015
Today is the last mixtape! I can think of no better way to end this series than by taking a look at the work of the wonderful curators who have...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 31, 2015
The Oakland-based radical publisher and distributor, AK Press, is reeling from a deadly fire that spread to its warehouse early in the morning on March 21st. AK Press shares the...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 31, 2015
Thanks to the evidently tireless work of Michael Nardone and editors Jason Camlot and Christine Mitchell, Amodern 4: The Poetry Series is out and features an incredible collection of writings...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 30, 2015
Thom Donovan interviewed Cassandra Troyan about her work's relationship to violence, post-sovereignty, and masochism--and it's all at The New Inquiry. "What does the masochist have to teach us—about subjectivity, and...