Harriet: News & Community

It's Friday, yes? Well, then how about we all watch this Old Spice guy talk about libraries and come up with a poem worthy of Greg Oden:

Dr. Sarah Traister Moskovitz has translated a collection of Yiddish poetry originally composed by Jews trapped in the Warsaw Ghetto into English. Moskovitz has just put the translations...

From cross-dressing Ovid to sexually confused spinsters, Emma Donoghue chronicles the Sapphic subtext beneath “plutonic” female relationships in Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature. Jessa Crispin’s review at The...

The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine fused art and science with a poetry contest devoted to stem cells. The winning odes to this renewable wonder of science can be...

The LA Times reports that some of last year's stimulus money has made its way Poor Dog Group, an LA arts organization putting on a theatrical production of Gertrude Stein's...

On TheThe Poetry Blog (sic), David Shapiro talks about humor in poetry, and poetry in humor: "Certain clowns upset Shakespeare." More insights here

Burmese poet Saw Wai spent two years in prison for publishing a poem called "The Love Journal." He was released in May, and in the online magazine, Irrawaddy, he...

The Independent wonders if the literary night out the new book club? Welcome to the new world of literary nights where entertainment is king and the youthful attendees not only want...

Gary Glazner's Alzheimer's Poetry Project continues to make the rounds. After being featured in the Orlando Sentinel last week, the healing powers of poetry are put to the test again...

As if we needed to be reminded that driving cross-country with far-out beatnik poets talking about meaning and purpose and revolution is way more psychedelic than than drinking caffeinated iced...