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  • Poetry News
    By Harriet StaffFebruary 5, 2018

    Cuban poet and writer Marcelo Morales Cintero is interviewed for the Kenyon Review (his poem "Matter (selections)" appears in the journal's Jan/Feb 2018 issue). This interview has been translated from the Spanish by Pilar Hoye...

  • Poetry News
    By Harriet StaffFebruary 2, 2018

    Published last year by University of Arizona Press, Vértiz's Palm Frond with Its Throat Cut sweeps between languages including English, Spanish, and Nahuatl to "transform displacement and a polluted cityscape into sources of resistance...

    Isabel Gómez, Palm Frond with Its Throat Cut, cover
  • Poetry News
    By Harriet StaffFebruary 2, 2018

    "Reality marks you. You can't shut yourself away." Claribel Alegría said, in a 1991 conversation with The Economist about her experience writing from Latin America. The author of poetry, prose, and "testimony"—she witnessed and...

    Claribel Alegria
  • Poetry News
    By Harriet StaffFebruary 2, 2018

    Chapbook publisher Catenary Press—co-edited by Rawaan Alkhatib and Rob Schlegel, who are based in Brooklyn and Walla Walla, Washington, respectively—is showcased this month at the New York Public Library. This week,...

    Catenary Press logo
  • From Poetry Magazine
    By Hera Lindsay BirdFebruary 2, 2018

    I have to be honest and say upfront that music is obviously better than poetry, and nothing gives me the shits more than people trying to combine the two.

    Hera Lindsay Bird
  • Poetry News
    By Harriet StaffFebruary 2, 2018

    At the New Yorker, John Seabrook captures the mood one evening at White Columns when Richard Hell (born Richard Lester Meyers) and his ardent follower, Kyle Void, inhabited the same room....

    Richard Hell and the Voidois, Blank Generation, cover
  • Poetry News
    By Harriet StaffFebruary 1, 2018

    Today kicks off Black History Month and we celebrate the birthday of Langston Hughes. The New York Times recognizes the occasion with an op-ed by Renée Watson, who reflects on...

    Langston Hughes
  • Poetry News
    By Harriet StaffFebruary 1, 2018

    At the University of Toronto, a new exhibition of Allen Ginsberg's photographs spanning the mid-1940s to the '90s displays previously unseen "fleeting moments" of friendship and tomfoolery among mid-century's notoriously...

    Allen Ginsberg
  • Poetry News
    By Harriet StaffFebruary 1, 2018

    The New York Times reports that Kwame Alexander will begin publishing books under an imprint called Versify, for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers. "[H]e’s looking for risky, unconventional books like...

    Kwame Alexander
  • Poetry News
    By Harriet StaffFebruary 1, 2018

    An interview with poet Morgan Parker at The Rumpus is making our morning. "Not long ago, on an unseasonably cool New York afternoon and an unseasonably hot Los Angeles morning,"...

    Image of Morgan Parker
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