Harriet: News & Community
A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 3, 2017
Critical Flame's issue 50 guest editor is Ricco Siasoco, and his introduction points us "to intimate interviews with African American poets from Charleston, also known as 'The Holy City.'" Questions discussed, Siasoco says,...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 3, 2017
At Hyperallergic, Edward M. Gómez considers recent light cast on artist Ray Johnson. To accompany a show at Matthew Marks this summer, for instance, the gallery published Ray Johnson, "an illustrated volume that documented that...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 3, 2017
William Sieghart, the publisher and philanthropist behind (among other initiatives) the Forward Poetry Prize, speaks with Kate Kellaway at The Guardian about his new book, The Poetry Pharmacy: Tried-and-True Prescriptions...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 2, 2017
News from National Poetry Day in the United Kingdom! Amineh Abou Kerech, who immigrated from Syria just last year, is the recipient of the 2017Â Betjeman poetry prize for 10-13 year...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 2, 2017
An interview with Kristen Gallagher and Ed Steck is up at Social Text, conducted by Aaron Winslow, whose Skeleton Man Press recently published books by the writers, 85% True/Minor Ecologies and The Necro-Luminescence of Pink Mist, respectively....
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 2, 2017
Back in August we reported on poet, scholar, and now lawyer, Reginald Dwayne Betts, whose "fitness of character" was questioned by the Connecticut bar and subsequently denied admission. The good...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 2, 2017
"Who Owns What" is the question in the October issue of Frieze, where writers Coco Fusco, Diedrich Diederichsen, and Hari Kunzru have joined forces with poet Claudia Rankine, artist Renée Green, musician and critic Vivian...
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Featured BloggerBy Jill MagiOctober 2, 2017
I begin by returning to something I have tried to write before: My training in writing poetry allowed me to stay present—to literally not pass out—at the deaths of my mother...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffSeptember 29, 2017
For the New York Times's Books section, Alexandra Alter introduces (and interviews) Edward St. Aubyn, who recently authored a "modern retelling of Shakespeare's 'King Lear.'" In St. Aubyn's version, Alter...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffSeptember 29, 2017
Salt Lake City Weekly reviews Paisley Rekdal's latest book, The Broken Country: a meditative essay that traces the causes and effects of violence. It is inspired by one specific event...
