Harriet: News & Community
A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffDecember 30, 2014
At Entropy, Housten Donham makes fundamental Josef Kaplan's Kill List, using it to invoke recent essays on all things conceptual, drawing in both Barrett Watten's "On Naming Names" and Cathy...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffDecember 30, 2014
Marianne Morris shews us all with an amazing interview valuing poetic language in and of itself. At The Literateur, Vicky Sparrow talks with MM about her new book, 2014's overlooked...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffDecember 30, 2014
This just in! Entropy Magazine has merged with Civil Coping Mechanisms to create a new online literary community. This new entity will also host Enclave: a blog. From Entropy's Executive...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffDecember 30, 2014
After discovering that "we need soul-searching about race in America," Nicholas Kristof asked readers of The New York Times to submit poems about race, writing that "[p]oetry is a window...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffDecember 29, 2014
At Blouin ArtInfo, a great piece on the influence of Raymond Roussel on multi-platform French artist Pierre Huyghe, the subject of a current LACMA show (which features a live dog!)....
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Featured BloggerBy Daniel BorzutzkyDecember 29, 2014
It is not enough to suppress the adversary if you do not erase her memory and her ability to organize an alternative project... In the face of this strategy, we...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffDecember 29, 2014
Word up, bookworms! A recent study by Harvard University scientists confirms what you might have already suspected while squinting into the screen of your personal reading device before bed: reading...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffDecember 29, 2014
Over the weekend we learned of the death of Slovenian poet Tomaž Šalamun at the age of 73. Throughout his career, Šalamun published dozens of books of poetry in Slovenian...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffDecember 25, 2014
Happy holidays to you! We're taking a much needed rest: see you soon!
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffDecember 23, 2014
Warscapes Editor, Noam Scheindlin, presents a fresh poem by Najwa Ali called "If shore, then traffic." Ali wrote "If shore, then traffic" in response to the United States's "policies of...