Harriet: News & Community

Remembrances and reflections on the life and work of Lucie Brock-Broido are coming in, with Mary Jo Bang writing at Boston Review and, in a piece at the Paris Review...

At the Chicago Tribune, Elizabeth Lund reviews new books of poetry by Li-Young Lee, E. Ethelbert Miller, and Naomi Shihab Nye. Lund begins by opening readers' eyes to Lee's poetry, writing...

At Affidavit, Kate Zambreno responds to Claudia Rankine's Don't Let Me Be Lonely, Marilyn Monroe's death, and Marlene Dumas's paintings as part of an essay about death, grief, and longing....

Feminist bookstores have been on the rise since Trump was elected, reports Publishers Weekly. New York City's Bluestockings, for instance, "has continued to thrive since the election [...] and books...

Morgan Parker wrote for The Cut yesterday; the poet and writer is thinking about comedy, about slavery, about Kanye West in the Katrina telethon. "I’m not a comedian, but I...

Read Laura Wetherington's latest review for Hyperallergic of Lynn Melnick's new poetry collection, Landscape With Sex and Violence. Wetherington begins with a comparison between poetry and visual art: "One of...

A new exhibition, "Kathy Acker: Who Wants to Be Human All the Time," draws attention to Acker's legacy and influence on the Lower East Side. The group exhibition is co-curated...

Andy Fitch interviews scholar and poet Margaret Ronda, with topics including "eco-inflected poetries," "the Great Acceleration of present-day environmental change" and its relationship to "poetic temporalities," and her new book, Remainders: American Poetry at Nature's...

Aaron Belz reviews the expanded edition of the late Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer's The Half-Finished Heaven: Selected Poems, published by Graywolf last spring and translated by Robert Bly. "In a century that has...

At the first poetry reading I attended, at a bar in Detroit, I heard a poet introduce himself by summing up his disillusionment with a life in poetry: “I was...