Harriet: News & Community

For her “Second Acts” column at the Los Angeles Review of Books this week, Lisa Russ Spaar looks at Susan Stewart's The Hive (University of Georgia Press, 2008) and Jennifer Chang's Some...

Thom Donovan provides a critical reading of Renee Gladman's evolution from writing to drawing, focusing on two of her latest collections: Calamities and Prose Architectures (both published by Wave Books). "When...

In the latest issue of Harvard Magazine, Jesse McCarthy writes about the poetry and scholarship of Fred Moten. The article dives into the distinguished writer's childhood and his awakening (in part,...

Up at Jacket2, with thanks to Jerome Rothenberg, is an essay by poet, visual artist, and visual poet, David-Baptiste Chirot. Chirot recollects his childhood and the objects that filled this...

At the new Lemonhound (3.0!), an interview with M. NourbeSe Philip is up, taken from the forthcoming Blank: Essays and Interviews by M. NourbeSe Philip (BookThug, 2017). "Q: I have some difficulty seeing how...

New York Times book critic Carl Wilson weighs in on the latest development in poetry—verse written specifically for the social media platform Instagram. Rupi Kaur is a leading figure within these...

In a Constant Critic review of litanies said handedly: poetry, collage, & performance (Dos Madres Press, 2017), Tyrone Williams recalls writing about poet Ralph La Charity for Harriet in 2012, in a short essay called...

Since 1961, when it was co-founded by Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop, Burning Deck has been a model press for DIY publishing, for experimental poetries, and for works in translation. Now...

Over the weekend, news outlets reported that the Department of Health and Human Services has barred the Center for Disease Control and Prevention from using seven words or phrases in its...