Harriet: News & Community

At 3:AM, fiction writer and poet Vi Khi Nao interviews Diana Arterian about the ways she uses writing and translation to push back against the violence ignited by the 45th administration....

Pop icon Taylor Swift may be an authority when it comes to "Style," but... poetry? The Telegraph reports that Swift will be on the cover of Vogue's January issue, but...

At Open Space, Justin Desmangles recalls his first encounter with the "legendary figure" Ted Joans—at a Seattle exhibition of Joans's drawings, followed by a poetry reading at Signature Bound Books. Desmangles...

For our December 2017 playlist, we asked contributor Sonnet L’Abbé to curate a selection of music for us. You can read about her approach to creating the playlist below. Click here...

Charles Simic tells a tale for the NYR Daily about a poet who writes with—wait for it—a pencil. "Who is this idiot? You are probably thinking. It’s me, of course." No! More: Since...

The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University has digitized the entirety of their Mina Loy collection. "A detailed description of the archive can be found online here: Guide...

Daniel E. Pritchard wrote about Cuban poet Víctor Rodríguez Núñez's award-winning collection, tasks (co-im-press, 2017), translated into English by Katherine M. Hedeen. Núñez, who teaches at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, "finds intimacy in...

Lorin Stein resigned from his editorship of the Paris Review yesterday, after complaints from female employees—and an appearance on the recently circulated "Shitty Men in Media" list—instigated an internal investigation into his...

At Electric Literature, Cassandra A. Baim writes about her complicated relationship with Charles Bukowski's oeuvre and his devoted followers. "I avoided Bukowski in high school without even trying, simply because I...

At Frieze, Ellen Mara de Wachter looks back at the year's fondness for the open letter, a manifestation of protest with an historical precedent. "Today’s letter writers are equally passionate...