Harriet: News & Community

David Berman may not be producing any new music or poetry these days, but that doesn’t mean he’s keeping quiet. According to poet and editor Jeremy Schmall, Berman has dedicated...

Glenys Mair Glyn Roberts is the latest poet to win the crown for the National Eisteddfod poetry prize in Wales. The National Eisteddfod, a week-long festival of the arts held...

Poet and critic Robert Archambeau weighs in on what he sees as the "Twilight of the comment streams" at Samizdat: I think this attention-seeking condition is endemic to the whole American...

Calvin Bedient of the Boston Review juxtaposes Myung Mi Kim’s Penury with Tiresias: The Collected Poems of Leland Hickman edited by Stephen Motika to illustrate how neither the sparse poem...

Carolyn Kellogg at the LA Times "Jacket Copy" blog has two archival videos of Anne Sexton from 1966 (the first one is above).  Watch the rest here.

Artist and Huffington Post arts editor Kimberly Brooks hopes to shake up the art and poetry worlds with "7 Rings," a project devised by painter Rebecca Campbell and poet Nicole...

Montana's poet laureate Henry Real Bird, a cowboy and member of the Crow Nation, is traversing the state on horseback and passing out books of poetry along the way. ...

In 2006, the National Endowment for the Arts responded to data suggesting that Americans were reading less by distributing grants to non-profits around the country in an initiative they called...

(click the Pegasus for the show)In this week's cover story, Eric Ziegenhagen discusses the work of Cynthia Krupat and Harry Ford, two designers he says defined an era of book...

Over the weekend, Ron Silliman nixed the comment stream on his blog, but that hasn’t stopped his readers from remarking on his controversial decision. Poets have taken to their...