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  • Poetry News
    By Harriet StaffJuly 31, 2017

    Newberry Award Medal-winning poet Kwame Alexander stepped into the studios at NPR's "Morning Edition" to talk about some of the best poems and poets for children. His appearance is timely, as...

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  • Poetry News
    By Harriet StaffJuly 28, 2017

    At Literary Hub, Adam Fitzgerald and Emily Skillings have organized a birthday celebration for John Ashbery, who is 90 years old this year. They've invited 90 of his dearest friends...

    John Ashbery
  • Poetry News
    By Harriet StaffJuly 28, 2017

    On the occasion of his recent "2-for-1" collection, Before Dawn on Bluff Road/Hollyhocks in the Fog: Selected New Jersey Poems/Selected San Francisco Poems, New Jersey-born, San Francisco-based poet August Kleinzahler speaks with...

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  • Poetry News
    By Harriet StaffJuly 28, 2017

    Initiated during the moment before last year's election and carried on throughout to its immediate aftermath, poets Aracelis Girmay and Emmy Pérez discuss poetry's relationship to physical realities and the...

  • Poetry News
    By Harriet StaffJuly 28, 2017

    At Jacket2, Stephen Collis reviews Layli Long Soldier's Whereas, as part of a new commentary called "The Rise of the Biotariat," in which Collis hopes to read poetry closely "along two trajectories: first, a poetry...

    Layli Long Soldier
  • Poetry News
    By Harriet StaffJuly 28, 2017

    Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith is soon to commence her tenure as U.S. poet laureate, if you weren't aware. She recently talked with CBS This Morning and the 14th Librarian of...

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  • Featured Blogger
    By erica lewisJuly 27, 2017

    When I decided to do this series of interviews based on how poet and scholar Tyrone Williams defines and depicts our "generations" in his intro to mary wants to be...

    Harmony Holiday
  • Poetry News
    By Harriet StaffJuly 27, 2017

    Poet Laureate of Sacramento (and playwright) Indigo Moor's latest collection of poetry, In the Room of Thirsts & Hungers, weaves together the lives of entertainer Paul Robeson and Shakespeare's Othello to...

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  • Poetry News
    By Harriet StaffJuly 27, 2017

    Canadian literary journal, The Walrus, excerpts a selection from Matthew Zapruder's recently published Why Poetry? (Ecco, 2017). In it, Zapruder reflects on his relationship with his late father, and explores the ways that poetry helped...

    Matthew Zapruder
  • Poetry News
    By Harriet StaffJuly 27, 2017

    The Guardian reports on a new opera opening this weekend that is based on the memories of Siegfried Sassoon's niece and goddaughter, Sister Jessica Gatty. Gatty maintained a close friendship...

    Siegfried Sassoon
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