Harriet: News & Community

Up today at The Guardian, Sarah Churchwell considers how the story of Sylvia Plath has been shaped by, first, Ted Hughes and then to a lesser extent by her mother,...

Brett Sokol checks out Richard Hell's book collection and discusses the punk singer's journey from poet to punk singer, and back again, in an article published yesterday at the New...

In August, we reported on the controversy surrounding the denied admission of Reginald Dwayne Betts to the Connecticut bar, and we followed up last month with the good news of...

We're grateful for our friends at LitHub, who have been posting interviews with finalists for the National Book Awards. The interviews span the genre spectrum, but since we're all poetry-heads...

Mary Oliver's books are quintessential resources for teachers and students diving into the craft of poetry. A new selection of Oliver's essays reinforces Oliver's position, as Nicola Waldron asserts in her...

Literary Hub posts an alarming article by Daniel Swift, an excerpt from his recent book The Bughouse: The Poetry, Politics, and Madness of Ezra Pound (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017). It's...

Daniel Poppick answers 12 or 20 (in fact, 19) questions from Rob McLennan! Poppick, author of The Police (Omnidawn, 2017), talks about how the book changed his life, how he came...

Publishers Weekly heralds the coming of Lauren Russell's debut collection, What’s Hanging on the Hush (Ahsahta Press, 2017), with a starred review! "Russell’s experimental and provocative style beautifully amalgamates traditionally non-poetic...

For the November issue of The Brooklyn Rail, Fred Moten spoke with Jarrett Earnest about the evolution of his writing and the publication of a new book of essays, Black and Blur (Duke, 2017), which...

Tracy K. Smith spoke with Erin Woo at The Stanford Daily about the role of poet laureate, and the "power of poetry to break down political and personal barriers." She also...