Harriet: News & Community

David Griner of Adweek introduces readers to Becca Wadlinger, poet, and the copywriter behind one of the Superbowl's most captivating ads. Wadlinger wrote a poem featured in an ad for Coca-Cola called "The...

At the Creative Independent, Jessica Hopper initiates a conversation with poet, scholar, and activist Eve L. Ewing about success and the importance of effort and persistence. Their discussion begins with a nod...

Nicaraguan-born poet and "a voice for the voiceless and the dispossessed" Claribel Alegría has died at the age of 93, reports the New York Times's Neil Genzlinger. "Ms. Alegría considered El...

Joy KMT interviews poet and scholar Alexis Pauline Gumbs in a recent LARB conversation. KMT sheds lights on one of Gumbs's latest accomplishments, Spill, a poetry collection rooted in "the...

We'll round out the day with some good news coming from our friends at the Mellon Foundation, who announce poet Elizabeth Alexander will head the organization as its new president....

Check out Hyperallergic to read a review by Douglas Messerli of Guy R. Beining's latest, The Silence of My Room, published by Chintamani Books just last year. Messerli is no stranger to...

PEN America has announced its Lifetime Career and Achievement awards. Among those honored this year is poet and scholar Kamau Brathwaite. Of the awards, PEN writes: In addition to PEN America’s...

For Hyperallergic, poet and writer Noel Black takes on the "endlessly amusing" writings of Soviet poet Igor Kholin (1920–1999), whose book, Kholin 66: Diaries and Poems, was published last spring by...

Alejandro Zambra remembers encounters with acclaimed, controversial poet Nicanor Parra in a recent article published at the New Yorker. When Zambra was eighteen he first heard about the storied poet,...