Harriet: News & Community

In a feature at the New Inquiry, Fred Moten's "come on, get it!" writes–with collaborators Thom Donovan, Malik Gaines, Ethan Philbrick, Wikipedi,a and the Online Etymology Dictionary–groups, Gruppen, writing in a state...

At LA Review of Books, L. A. Johnson reviews Lisa Russ Spaar's Orexia (Persea Books, 2017), the title of which "comes from the Greek word for 'desire,'" and "is a word...

City Lights will publish Carmen Giménez Smith's Cruel Futures later this year, the seventeenth title in their Spotlight Series, and as Publishers Weekly notes, it collects the poet's "brief yet...

Poet Farid Matuk answered five questions from his editor, Scott De Herrera, about his newest book, The Real Horse (U. of Arizona Press, 2018), for the press's blog. "I’m with the poet Alice...

Congratulations to Patricia Smith and Donika Kelly, winners of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and Kate Tufts Discovery Prize, respectively, for their recent poetry collections, Incendiary Art and Bestiary. Claremont Graduate...

Newtown, Connecticut resident and writer Brian Clements–whose wife, a teacher, survived the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting–is a co-editor, with Alexandra Teague and Dean Rader, of Bullets into Bells: Poets and Citizens...

The Reading List is a feature of Poetry’s Editors’ Blog.

Graywolf Press recently published Stephanie Burt's Advice from the Lights, and at Boston Review Nicholas D. Nace writes about the collection. Nace foregrounds, "Advice from the Lights is the last book...

At New York Review of Books, Barry Schwabsky examines and contextualizes the recent publication of Words & Drawings, a collaboration between artist Mario Schifano and Frank O'Hara. The document is a...

Lit Hub's Emily Temple ranks 25 "legendary literary feuds"! The intro alone is worth the read: ...I wouldn’t count Hans Christian Andersen overstaying his welcome at Charles Dickens’s house a feud, no matter how bad...