Harriet: News & Community

One of our favorite Canadian small presses, Toronto's BookThug, is going into the record business! It all started with Broken Social Scene's Andrew Whiteman pitching the idea of a poetry-record series to...

Daniel Poppick and Jenny Zhang, former classmates at the University of Iowa, talk about their new books—The Police and Sour Heart, respectively—in an obscene conversation at BOMB. "DP: If you call someone 'butthole' versus...

Raisa Tolchinsky of Tricycle speaks with Ocean Vuong, author of Night Sky With Exit Wounds, about fear and compassion as tools to create new work. In this interview with Tolchinsky,...

At LARB, Rachel Hadas delves into Mary Jo Salter's latest collection of poetry, a panoramic assessment of her travels called (appropriately) The Surveyors.  It's a "capacious and ambitious collection" in...

In Southern China this week, Radio Free Asia reports poet Langzi was arrest for compiling a poetry anthology to remember the late Noble laureate and dissident Liu Xiaobo, who died...

This June, Dawn Lundy Martin and Cave Canem Executive Director Nicole Sealey took a moment—several days, really—at the organization's retreat at the University of Pittsburgh in Greensburg to talk about their mutual orbit, their new...

On the 150th anniversary of his birth, five previously unpublished poems from the once-lost, now-found notebook of celebrated haiku poet and essayist Masaoka Shiki (1867–1902) have been found among archives in the preservation association...

As if the ongoing rivalry between UCLA and USC wasn't heated enough, the Los Angeles Times files a report on the twain's latest bitter quarrel. USC Village welcomed a new...

We're thrilled to hear the news that CUNY-Grad Center Professor Ammiel Alcalay is the recipient of an American Book Award for his accomplishents as the founder and editor of Lost &...

Publishers of Max Ritvo's Four Reincarnations, Milkweed Editions, honored the late poet yesterday, just a year after his death, with a collection of tributes and remembrances: A year ago today, Max Ritvo passed...