Harriet: News & Community
A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffFebruary 1, 2015
"Poetry ... has to be both an act of solitude and of experience and lived life, and community," says Sampson Starkweather ... on TV! Poet, editor, and CUNY Center for...
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Featured BloggerBy Ronaldo V. WilsonJanuary 30, 2015
Sometimes, when the dark sky is very clear, I look up at the Big Dipper, and search for the North Star, though I never really know how to read the...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJanuary 30, 2015
Tomorrow, one of our favorite poetry bookshops is hosting one of our favorite annual readings. Of course we're talking about the good folks at Woodland Pattern Book Center in Milwaukee....
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJanuary 30, 2015
SFGate sends word that the former director of the Iowa Writers Workshop has died. John Leggett was 97 years old. Later in his life he co-founded and directed the Napa...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJanuary 30, 2015
Word of Rod McKuen's death surfaced yesterday; he was 81 years old. Rod McKuen was a successful lyricist and poet who, early in his career, regularly performed in San Francisco...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJanuary 30, 2015
At Locus Solus: The New York School of Poets blog, Andrew Epstein helps promote The Poetry Project's upcoming tribute to poet and dance writer Edwin Denby (1903-1983), “Dancers, Buildings, and...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJanuary 29, 2015
Our hero has written up our hero! At Rookie, Eileen Myles writes: "To write about Dottie, I have to mention an enraging thing I love thinking about. Which is that...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJanuary 29, 2015
Happy 40th Anniversary, Loft! The Loft Literary Arts Center, a cultural hub in Minneapolis for the last forty years (as of this year!) is beginning a search for a new...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJanuary 29, 2015
In Egypt, the poet Fatima Naoot could face anywhere from six months to three years in jail for criticizing Eid al-Adha on Facebook. Eid al-Adha is a Muslim festival in...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJanuary 29, 2015
Who knew we'd ever acquire our poetry news from Business Insider, but here you are: Poet Lynn Gentry, who puts together custom poems by the Whole Foods subway in NYC,...