Harriet: News & Community

Kiki Petrosino--author of Fort Red Border and current denizen of Louisville, Kentucky--has taken over @harriet_poetry for the month. She succeeds Heather Christle, who succeeded D.A. Powell. Kiki says:...

All this time, while you thought our good ‘ol peanut-farming former president Jimmy Carter was using his powers for good to help children in poverty, he was actually writing saucy...

When writer Amelia Gray sweetly crooned these and other “threats” at a reading last week, the audience was both amused and horrified. What did she have for breakfast? Gray’s reading...

In her bestselling memoir Lit, poet and writer Mary Karr wrote of how she battled and eventually conquered alcoholism. Today she’s feeding a different sort of addiction with...

Anne Carson’s book Nox is, according to Meghan O’Rourke at the New Yorker, “a luminous, big, shivering, discandied, unrepentant, barking web of an elegy, which is why it evokes...

As this morning's AP story showed, Billy Collins is one of many poets distressed to see his line breaks butchered by the Kindle. Like many poets and their readers,...

Former Harriet blogger, editor, and poet Camille Dungy is part of the Rumpus Poetry Book Club advisory board, and as part of her duties she has written this post explaining...

Billy Collins joins the long list of poets unhappy with the way poems look on the Kindle. From the AP: Billy Collins, one of the country's most popular poets, had...

On the New York Review of Books blog, Tony Judt writes about his experience reading Czeslaw Milosz's critique of intellectuals who are afraid to think for themselves: For Milosz, “the man...

Of all the reasons to turn down the offer of poet laureate, W.S. Merwin’s might be the most unusual: he was tending to his pineapples. Merwin, who has worked to...