Harriet: News & Community

Two recent "best of" lists give us hope that compiling the names of books and authors need not involve snarky criticism or sycophantic praise. Publishers Weekly named Kathleen Graber's second...

Frustrated over Tuesday's election results? Then write a poem about it! Slam champ and prize-winning poet Patricia Smith spoke to Minnesota Public Radio yesterday about her instinct to put pen...

Harriet’s always keeping on top of new technological developments, as you know, especially when those developments could potentially change the way we write. Now, there’s a new program in...

When do we read good news about bookstores? Never, that’s when! But reader, get ready for a surprise, because Never is today! Ok, well, it’s not exactly good news,...

Who: Tucker Neel, Mathew Timmons, and the Archanoids What: 323 Projects When: December, 2010 Where: François Ghebaly Gallery in Culver City, CA “Open Door” features audio, video, and online media to document dynamic interactions between...

Poet and journalist Seth Abramson created this lovely listicle of the top twenty-seven underrated creative writing programs that fully fund 70 percent or more of students. So if you're...

It’s not everyday that you read a downright moving account of someone’s enthusiasm over an academic conference. But Nick Demske has written just that: a report on the Post Moot...

Author Coleman Barks spent over three decades perfecting Rumi: The Big Red Book. According to his friend Robert Bly, he's succeeded in giving "the horse a clap on the rear."...

Indie publisher Soft Skull Press has closed shop in its Manhattan offices after 17 years. Soft Skull was acquired by Berkeley publisher Counterpoint in 2007 when it faced financial ruin,...

Award-winning poet Simon Armitage has launched an initiative to assemble poets from all of the participating Olympic nations for London's 2012 games. Getting 200 poets from around the world (Antarcticans,...