Harriet: News & Community

President, philanthropist, lady’s man....and the next Don Giovanni? Oh yes. Bill Clinton is the subject of a new opera slated to open in Little Rock, Arkansas this fall, reports...

A recent debate in the UK over the use of polytunnels in The Wye Valley had a judge and a journalist both channeling Wordsworth. The Valley, a bit of countryside...

Spanish poet Miguel Hernandez - his life began in poverty and ended in tragedy - wrote his best known poetry while serving time in prison for infractions against the...

For poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil, it’s her office painted in her favorite shade of robin’s-egg blue with red accents. For some writers, it may be a pristine desk; for others a messy...

Lexington poet Jeff Worley selected a diverse cross-section of Kentucky’s most accomplished poets to represent The Bluegrass State in his new anthology What Comes Down to Us: 25 Contemporary Kentucky...

Franklin Bruno’s analysis of Other Flowers, a compilation of James Schuyler’s a previously uncollected poems, explores the way in which his naming works against the high Modernist Mallarmé's idea...

The Beatles Story, a Liverpudlian experience that includes a Beatles "Discovery Zone" and a Starbucks, is searching for poets to pay homage to Lennon’s life and work through written and...

Jim Fisher over at the Paris Review blog has put together an appreciation of John Darnielle (impresario behind the best little death-metal-folk-rock band The Mountain Goats) and his sometimes-sung, sometimes-written...

Via the NYT: Tuli Kupferberg, the poet, singer and professional bohemian who went from being a noted Beat to becoming, in his words, “the world’s oldest rock star” when he...

When painter Charles Demuth took the varied hues and layers presented in William Carlos William’s "The Great Figure" and transformed the verbal into the visual, he probably didn’t anticipate...