Harriet: News & Community

This week, Literary Hub invites readers to check out an excerpt from Jill Bialosky's new memoir, Poetry Will Save Your Life. In it, Bialosky divulges the details of her experience relocating from the...

The shortlist for the 26th annual Forward Prizes for Poetry has been announced, and it includes in its estimable ranks American poet (and Harriet contributor) Harmony Holiday, who's up for "Best Single...

Edition Nine of the thrice-yearly journal of poetry and criticism Prac Crit is out, and features (among much else; see below) an interview with poet Emily Critchley, who is based in Greenwich, London,...

If your interests include both reading poetry and interesting people, you'll want to check out a new podcast called "Interesting People Read Poetry." The weekly podcast is produced and hosted...

Elizabeth Lund reviews new collections of poetry by Frank Bidart, Mary Jo Salter, and Mary Jo Bang this week at the Washington Post. Lund writes that while a new compendium of Bidart's...

The Reading List is a feature of Poetry’s Editors’ Blog. This month contributors to the July/August 2017 issue share some recommendations. So many contributors responded that we divided the list...

Molly McCully Brown, the author of the new poetry collection The Virginia State Colony For Epileptics And Feedbleminded, joins Fresh Air host Terry Gross to discuss divinity, disability, and poetry...

At Hyperallergic, Douglas Messerli nods to Susan Howe's latest and rumored to be her last (though we certainly hope not) collection of poetry, Debths. The collection's title is culled from...

Jorie Graham discusses her new collection (her first in five years), Fast (Ecco, 2017), with Erin Lyndal Martin at The Rumpus. "Here, she confronts her father’s death, his Southern roots,...