Harriet: News & Community

The Guardian's, Ben Beaumont-Thomas reports on a new collection of Lou Reed's "lost" poetry (and short stories) hitting bookshelves later this spring. The book, Do Angels Need Haircuts?, is accompanied by...

Nineteen years old, in 1992, at Wayne State University in Detroit, where I was a pre-med student, I stepped away from a chemistry experiment taking a long time to turn...

Writer, scholar, and artist Wayne Koestenbaum took a phone call from interviewer-extraordinaire Paul Holdengraber (aka "A Phone Call From Paul"), and both the exchange itself and its transcription are now up at...

Saigoneer introduces local readers and poetry fans to Hoa Nguyen, who recently visited Vietnam for a series of readings and poetry workshops. In his article "A Vietnamese-American Poet's First Return...

"At least a few times a week, someone asks me about Puerto Rico," writes Philadelphia Poet Laureate Raquel Salas Rivera in a new essay for Lambda Literary, "If My Island Were Flores,"...

Raymond Danowski, a voracious reader and holder of the largest private collection of 20th-century poetry in English, has died, reports the New York Times. "At first they filled a barn...

For our March 2018 playlist, we asked contributor Danez Smith to curate a selection of music for us.

Building off of news from earlier in the week, where we announced the launched of this year's Poetry Coalition theme, "Where My Dreaming and My Loving Live: Poetry & the...

Poet and writer Sherman Alexie has publicly addressed recent accusations of sexual harassment leveled against him, reports the Seattle Times, in which he acknowledges that he has hurt people in the past while denying "the...