Harriet: News & Community

At Catapult, Naima Coster, author of the forthcoming novel Halsey Street, reflects on her experience working with the poet Morgan Parker as her editor at Little A. Coster shared a...

While many of us have been looking back at the year that was (2017, for those who haven't been keeping track), Alex Crowley at Publishers Weekly takes a gander at...

For the New Yorker's Page Turner column, Anwen Crawford, author of Live Through This, explores poet and feminist icon Sylvia Plath's letters, compiled in The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume 1, 1940–1956. "Many...

Poet Peter Twal has won this year's Etel Adnan Poetry Prize for his collection Our Earliest Tattoos. "Twal will receive $1,000, and his collection will be published by the University of Arkansas Press in...

Barry Schwabsky points to Germany's gradual shift to the far right as one of many reasons why Navid Kermani's new book of literary criticism, Between Quran and Kafka: West-Eastern Affinities, is...

1. How It Opens Inside I am especially magnetized to works that hold and reflect light emotionally. I’m particularly moved by Michele Kishita’s paintings, the way they gesture to landscapes and...

New at the White Review is a meditation on the "full disclosure autobiography," with Claire Lowdon writing about Brian Blanchfield's Proxies, among other books of full disclosure affinity. "We locate the...

A must-read anthology (not a phrase you read every day, unless you tune into Harriet on the reg), A TransPacific Poetics (Litmus Press, 2017), edited by Lisa Samuels and Sawako Nakayas, is reviewed...

Surf on over to the Los Angeles Review of Books's blog to read an engrossing interview with Kathleen Fraser by Andy Fitch. Fraser is, of course, the author of numerous books of...