Harriet: News & Community

It’s Wednesday night at 11:39pm (change to: 12:38 am on Thursday as I go back to the top of the page to edit), and my month as a Harriet blogger...

On December 2nd, PEN American Center will auction seventy-five annotated first editions by accomplished writers including Jane Smiley and Don DeLillo, with all proceeds to benefit PEN: a literary organization...

At a public library in St-Omer, France, librarians recently discovered a previously unaccounted-for first folio of Shakespeare's plays. The discovery brings the total number of known, remaining first folios, worldwide,...

Jacket2 highlights video of Bernadette Mayer at Kelly Writers House in October, where she was a guest during a live interactive webcast hosted by the open online course, “ModPo." "Bernadette...

In the wake of the Michael Brown grand jury non-indictment, this poetry-news day is a slow one. Or is it? Some links we feel might be worth a moment of...

Counterpath recently published The Letters of Wendell Berry and Gary Snyder: a tome that many fans of both poets have been looking forward to, as Berry and Snyder have written...

[Editor's Note: Garrett Caples delivered a version this talk at the Poetry Foundation on November 6, 2014 as part of the Harriet Reading Series. Other "Open Door" features can be...

Despite what's most visible, Amaranth Borsuk and Andy Fitch do much more than look adorable for BOMB Daily: They walk "along the Poudre River [in Colorado] amid scattered showers," and...

Wow! Breaking news! NPR reports that a long-lost letter Neal Cassady wrote to Jack Kerouac, which inspired On the Road, has been re-discovered! The eighteen-page letter, written by Neal Cassady...

The "entire Entropy community" starts off the best-of-the-year lists sure to come with their own Best of 2014: Presses, Magazines, Publishers & Journals. "This list brings together some of the...