Harriet: News & Community

The Aldeburgh First Collection prize provides time, money and a place to write for a poet who "pushes limits." Here's the shortlist from the Guardian: Christian Campbell Running the Dusk (Peepal...

Al Filreis’s great Poem Talk radio show is being archived online, piece by piece. This week, an episode from November 2001 was posted, featuring Jena Osman. The title of...

The top end of this week’s contemporary best seller list looks about the same as last week’s (Mary Oliver’s Swan is still on top), but down around number 23 things...

Michael Tomasky, a political blogger for The Guardian, has posted a quiz about poetry, in an attempt, it seems, to stir up interest in the subject. He thinks it’s...

Who should come waltzing into the collective Internet unconscious wearing a suit and bowler hat? Why, if it isn't T.S. Eliot. He's popping up all over the place today. First,...

Harriet recently posted some links regarding the great clairvoyant poet Hannah Weiner. To add to the archive of recently unearthed material, Charles Bernstein just posted the full transcript of a...

Ted Davis, an artist, we presume, has created a site which algorithmically transforms texts into chromatic images. For example, submitting the true sentence “Harriet is the best” results in beautiful...

What happens when consumers fight back? What happens when consumers fight back on Twitter? Of course, the answer is nothing. What could be more disempowering that posting a complaint to...

If you want to know the moral state of America today, then look no further than late 18th century London. William Blake's "London," that is. Mark Edmundson makes a convincing...

John Wieners' Behind the State Capitol: Or Cincinnati Pike was printed by Good Gay Poets out of Boston in December 1975. It is described by Wieners on its title page...