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  • Poetry News
    By Harriet StaffApril 4, 2018

    On the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, Jason Miller details the civil rights leader's complicated friendship with poet Langston Hughes. At Smithsonian magazine, Miller explains, "For years,...

    Martin Luther King Jr. at Washington, D.C. Mall
  • Poetry News
    By Harriet StaffApril 4, 2018

    For a segment at Los Angeles Review of Books, Rico Frederick discusses some of the themes from the Poetry Coalition's 2018 Initiative: "Where My Dreaming and My Loving Live: Poetry...

    Nikki Giovanni, Chasing Utopia, cover
  • Poetry News
    By Harriet StaffApril 4, 2018

    The California Book Award finalists have been announced! In Poetry, for books all published in 2017, they include: Poetry Heaven Is All Goodbyes, Tongo Eisen-Martin Holy Ghost, David Brazil I Love It Though, Alli Warren Invocation to Daughters, Barbara...

    Tongo Eisen-Martin, Heaven Is All Goodbyes, cover
  • Featured Blogger
    By Rodney KoenekeApril 4, 2018

    I can’t be the only one who’s looked at Duchamp’s “Fountain” and thought what beautiful things toilets are. The sinuous, vaguely anthropomorphic shape; the porcelain’s serene shine; the holes in...

    Noah Purifory "Welcome" gate
  • Poetry News
    By Harriet StaffApril 3, 2018

    For the LA Times, Craig Morgan Teicher reviews Li-Young Lee's fifth collection of poems, The Undressing (W.W. Norton, 2018). Teicher notes that, "[a]t his best, Lee is capable of enormous sensuality, of blurring the...

    Li-Young Li, The Undressing, cover
  • Poetry News
    By Harriet StaffApril 3, 2018

    For National Poetry Month, Remezcla lists seven Latinx poets whose verse is deserving of your attention this month or any month of the year. As Alejandra Oliva begins, "We’re lucky enough...

    Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
  • Poetry News
    By Harriet StaffApril 3, 2018

    In nontraditional writing program news, we hear that students in the Pratt Institute BFA Writing program have gone and done away with the standard Poetry Thesis Prize in order to collaborate...

  • Poetry News
    By Harriet StaffApril 3, 2018

    Why are we so annoyed by subway advertisements which lead us to believe that they are from Poetry Society of America's Poetry in Motion campaign, but by the last line,...

    NYC Subway train
  • Featured Blogger
    By Patricia SmithApril 3, 2018

    Poets don’t usually put pictures of themselves on the front cover of their books. It comes off as gauche and needy—Here’s my picture! Here’s my name! Here’s my book! I’m...

    Patricia Smith, Life According to Motown, cover
  • Poetry News
    By Harriet StaffApril 2, 2018

    The New York Times remembers 'Grand Dame of Cowboy Poetry' Elizabeth Ebert, who passed away recently at the age of 93. As Carson Vaughan explains, "Elizabeth Ebert kept small stacks...

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