Harriet: News & Community
A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffFebruary 1, 2018
Yesterday, we saw the good news that the National Book Foundation will add works in translation to the National Book Awards. Alexandra Alter reports at the New York Times: Starting this...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJanuary 31, 2018
For the Washington Post's Books section, Elizabeth Lund suggests a few poetry collections to curl up with during one of the coldest months of the year, including the fourteenth collection...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJanuary 31, 2018
Revered Irish poet Richard Murphy has died at the age of 90. "A regular broadcaster on RTÉ and the BBC, his work is included in many anthologies. He taught in...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJanuary 31, 2018
Critic and editor Will Fenstermaker has written at length about Mirtha Dermisache: Selected Writings, co-published by Ugly Duckling Presse and Siglio Press and co-edited by Daniel Owen and Lisa Pearson, for the Paris Review Daily. Dermisache (1940–2012), an...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJanuary 31, 2018
Issue Four of the Bennington Review is out, and while most of it must be read while holding the actual journal, a few online features dot the table of contents,...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJanuary 31, 2018
Danez Smith's poetry collection Don't Call Us Dead is about to be published in the United Kingdom. To mark the occasion, Kate Kellaway introduces The Guardian's readers to the poet. Smith and...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJanuary 30, 2018
David Unger remembers his earliest encounters with Nicanor Parra's poetry, in a recent Paris Review article. Unger went on to collaborate with Parra, though, their partnership was somewhat doomed from...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJanuary 30, 2018
"Daniel Borzutzky follows up his 2016 National Book Award-winning debut with a deeply haunting extrapolation of current events," writes Craig Morgan Teicher in a sizable poetry-review roundup over at NPR. "Many...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJanuary 30, 2018
An op-ed at The Guardian joins the conversation around Rebecca Watts's controversial PN Review article, which works through issues of accessibility in the work of Rupi Kaur and similarly popular U.K. poets....
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJanuary 30, 2018
At Detroit News, RJ Wolcott documents Guillermo Delgado's course at Michigan State University, which pairs university students with inmates at Richard A. Handlon Correctional Facility to encourage them to express...
