Harriet: News & Community
A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Featured BloggerBy Daniel BorzutzkyDecember 18, 2014
This report has been filed in accordance with the proper policy for identifying the dead Who’s the killer Brenda Berenice Delgado? Who’s the killer Alma Chavira? Who’s the killer Verónica MartÃnez Hernández? Who's the...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffDecember 18, 2014
So they tell us: The Ruth Stone Foundation needs your help to save a historical literary landmark! One Sharon Olds can't be wrong: “When you were there you felt yourself...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffDecember 18, 2014
Well thank goodness there are a FEW books of poetry on here (or at least works by poets). Clocking in at numbers 23 and 41 are Auguste Rodin, by Rainer...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffDecember 17, 2014
As the year winds down, after another 365 days of incredible poetry publishing by presses large and small, some members of our staff have highlighted a few of their favorite...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffDecember 17, 2014
We don't usually cover book releases (they are so plentiful!), but this one is noteworthy. Why yes, it's Jackson Mac Low's Complete Light Poems, now in a "Deluxe Casebound Fanbinding...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffDecember 17, 2014
At the New York Public Library's blog, Meredith Mann from the library's Rare Books Division presents the true story of Times New Roman. The starting point for many documents, including...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffDecember 17, 2014
We vote yes! The recommendation, submitted by Austin Straus (Wanda Coleman's widow) and supported by the Los Angeles Times asks that the county consider changing the name of the Ascot...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffDecember 16, 2014
Boston Review has radical proximity at heart today, with Joyelle McSweeney writing "The Flame in the Grate," a piece on Uche Nduka's surrealism. McSweeney covers four books: if only the...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffDecember 16, 2014
On Friday night, The Poetry Project celebrated Jane Freilicher's life and spirit. At The New York Times, Holland Cotter meditates on her life and art career, and who her many...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffDecember 16, 2014
At The Rumpus, Kent Shaw takes a look into Harmony Holiday's latest dual book A Famous Blues / Go Find Your Father and finds a poetics of water flowing: "Look...