Harriet: News & Community

In an interview with The L Magazine, poet Dorothea Lasky breaks it down for the people: Have you ever been a Starving Artist, and did it make you brilliant, or just...

Luke Easter, a writer for Salem News, has penned an anti-ode to BP: The lack of containment places wildlife in serious jeopardy, and an endless series of lies are an attempt...

Merchant's new album of poetry set to music has the former NEA chief singing the praises: "There have been pop musicians in the past—Joni Mitchell and Loreena McKennitt, for example—who have...

At the Times, Kirstie Blair marvels at the meaning of Emily Dickinson's white dress: Dickinson’s preference for white retains considerable mythic resonance, interpreted as a symbol of the poet’s reclusiveness ....

The Chicago Tribune has the story of a teenager whose poem for a school assignment helped propel her to graduation: Five stanzas changed Tasana Hardy's life. Last year, a teacher in her...

The Virginia Quarterly Review and Studio 360 have put together a project called "In Verse," which is designed to combine poetry and storytelling in journalism. Their first project is...

The Fox News impresario Glenn Beck uses Kipling's "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" to anchor his weirdo book trailer:

Not much changed at the top of the contemporary best seller list this week, with Billy Collins, Anne Carson, and Kay Ryan remaining in the gold, silver, and bronze spots,...

The Guardian reports on a new scandal in the race for the Oxford professorship: Last year Nobel laureate Derek Walcott pulled out of the election for Oxford professor of poetry;...

Art historian Katie Geha looks at the assemblages of Jess, Robert Duncan's longtime partner, in this week's feature story: The picture of Poet’s Coffeepot that I’m looking at was taken in...