Harriet: News & Community

At Poets and Writers, spend a moment in conversation with Jeff Shotts, Executive Editor at Graywolf Press. The press, which PW writes "has been taking chances on new work often...

John Ashbery joins Adam Fitzgerald for a conversation published at BOMB that focuses on Ashbery's time in Paris. Beginning with the foundation of Art and Literature their conversation moves between...

"Winter is for women," wrote Sylvia Plath, who would have been 82 years old this week (the 27th to be exact). In honor of the occasion, a piece at The...

The three-day, much-anticipated Alette in Oakland: A Symposium on the Work of Alice Notley, organized by the good folks at The Bay Area Public School, concluded this past weekend. We...

The New York Time reports today on the passing of Galway Kinnell at the age of 87. According to his wife, Barbara K. Bristol, the cause of death was leukemia....

At the Los Angeles Review of Books, Major Jackson reviews Richard Blanco's memoir The Prince of Los Cocuyos : A Miami Childhood. You'll of course recall that the accomplished poet...

The New York Public Library is celebrating the fortieth anniversary of Ntozake Shange's groundbreaking work, For Colored Girls Who Dream of Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf, from now until January...

The Berkeley Daily Planet reports that Beat Poet and UC Berkeley Professor, Ronald Loewinsohn, passed away on October 14th. Born in the Philippines during the Japanese occupation in WWII, Loewinsohn's...

The Merced County Library will welcome California Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera on November 10th in the county library's Little Theatre, 2100 O St. in Merced. The first thirty-five families...

We're very grateful to Chris Mustazza and Al Filreis at PennSound for posting this series of recordings of Harriet Monroe, founder of Poetry magazine, and from whom this wee blog's...