Harriet: News & Community
A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 16, 2018
Over at the Los Angeles Times, Carolyn Kellogg reports on the National Book Critics Circle Awards, which took place in Manhattan last night. Layli Long Soldier won the NBCC poetry prize...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 16, 2018
In an article for Twin Cities' Daily Planet, Kassidy Tarala talks to Minneapolis-based poet Adina Burke about the challenges of representation that artists with disabilities face, and how much they have in...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 16, 2018
The Song Cave published Jane Gregory's newest collection of poems, Yeah No, earlier this year. At Michigan Quarterly Review, Ryo Yamaguchi reads Gregory's poems and thinks about distance. "Or something...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 15, 2018
Last week, the Lambda Literary Award shortlists for books published in 2017 were announced; among the Transgender Poetry finalists was Joshua Whitehead, who identifies as a 2SQ "(Two-Spirit, queer Indigenous)," and is...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 15, 2018
Kevin Thurston interviews Hoa Nguyen at The Public, as Nguyen prepares for her Just Buffalo STUDIO series reading. Thurston begins by asking about Nguyen's recent trip to Vietnam, which we covered here,...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 15, 2018
A new interview is up with Eileen Myles, whose latest book, Afterglow (A Dog Memoir), "warps the canon by embodying the mutability of memory and mind." Carlie Fishgold, who talked...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 15, 2018
Fred Moten and Mercedes Eng are in conversation at Godberd, a Canadian interdisciplinary project and events-based collective. Their dialogue is actually an excerpt from the "new edition of Eng’s Mercenary English,...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 14, 2018
At the Japan Times, Roger Pulvers guides readers' attention to two poets, Takuboku Ishikawa (1886-1912) and Kenji Miyazawa (1896-1933), whose verse bolsters the heart and soul of the Tohoku region in...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 14, 2018
YaleNews recently announced Yanyi's manuscript, The Year of Blue Water, is the winner of this year's Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. Carl Phillips, who judged the competition, remarks: "As its title...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffMarch 14, 2018
InsideOut Writer-in-Residence Peter Markus—who also teaches third grade in Detroit—thinks about the connection between state prisons and literacy: "I’ve heard it said—though it turns out not to be true—that prisons in our...
