Harriet: News & Community
A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJanuary 9, 2015
At The Battersea Review, Michael Seth Stewart brings to light several letters with poems sent to Michael Rumaker, written by John Wieners from 1955-1958. Wieners's letters shed light on the...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJanuary 9, 2015
The "Literature and Real Literary Community," Real Pants, hosts a very special tribute to Tomaž Šalamun. The feature, which went live this week, includes a recording of Šalamun reading at...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJanuary 8, 2015
Diriye Osman writes for The Huffington Post about "one of the most consistently thrilling poets at work today," Kwame Dawes. Osman looks at Dawes' 2013 volume of selected poems, Duppy...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJanuary 8, 2015
The Washington Post interviews Donald Hall about his new book of essays, Essays After Eighty (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), which came out in December. An interesting perspective: "Poetry had left me...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJanuary 8, 2015
At ArtSlant, Natalie Hegert reminds readers that there are only 4 MORE DAYS to see An Opening of the Field: Jess, Robert Duncan, and Their Circle at the Pasadena Museum...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJanuary 8, 2015
At The Atlantic, Kristina Bicher writes about Al Filreis's infamous ModPo course--that's Modern & Contemporary American Poetry, of course of course, which is now in its third year. "ModPo is...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJanuary 8, 2015
Yes, Emily Dickinson baked bread two times a day. No, Agatha Christie did not have like to eat scones with her scones and Devonshire cream. (Just the cream, apparently.) More...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJanuary 7, 2015
Way back in the day we found ourselves glued to the Nintendo playing hours of Metroid. If only Samus Aran could have taught us how to write poetry, our parents...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJanuary 7, 2015
The Chicana poet, spoken-word artist, and all around fantastic writer, Michele Serros, passed away this weekend at the age of 48. Her cause of death was cancer. From Jacket Copy's...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJanuary 7, 2015
How about some killer contest news? Here's one: Wonder has just announced the winner of the 2014 Wonder Book Prize, judged by Rachel Levitsky, which goes to Uljana Wolf for...