Harriet: News & Community
A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 18, 2015
The Poetry Society of America has announced its Annual Awards, handing Jennifer Moxley the William Carlos Williams Award for The Open Secret (Flood Editions)! And the Norma Farber First Book...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 17, 2015
Lisa Russ Spaar got a reminder in the mail--when news about Alice Fulton's newest collection, Barely Composed appeared in her inbox--to revisit Fulton's previous collection Palladium, published back in 1986....
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 17, 2015
Boston Review hosts a swell synopsis by Benjamin Landry of Kimiko Hahn's new venture Brain Fever published later last year by Knopf. Check it: A characteristically disjunctive turn marks the...
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Featured BloggerBy Elaine KahnMarch 17, 2015
I could have met Tooth through a million different friends in numerous cities at any point over the last 13 years. In fact, it's a little bit of a mystery...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 17, 2015
A fragmented but informative report on the reaction to Kenneth Goldsmith's recent reading of Michael Brown's autopsy, positioned as a new performance for Brown University's Interrupt series, can be found...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 16, 2015
The Offing is off! The new literary magazine holds true to its pre-publication hype, with poems and other amazing work by Eileen Myles, Juan Felipe Herrera, and Francine J. Harris....
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 16, 2015
An essay about Kathy Acker and McKenzie Wark's correspondence is up at Full Stop. Just out, I'm Very Into You (Semiotext(e) 2015) tracks a "heated e-mail correspondence" between the two...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 16, 2015
Shearsman Books published Aubrie Marrin's debut collection of poetry, Incognitum, just this month and this year, however, Marrin's name is back in the headlines for a very different reason. After...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 16, 2015
Brooklyn-based composer Missy Mazzoli's newest album, Vespers for a New Dark Age, is her most collaborative yet. The album is a new kind of vespers: one for the digital age....
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 13, 2015
At New Pages, Ryo Yamaguchi looks at Diana Hamilton's new chapbook, Universe (Ugly Duckling Presse 2015). "Diana Hamilton’s Universe is one of the tightest projects I’ve ever read," writes Yamaguchi....