Harriet: News & Community

Oh, how exciting! Our favorite poet/director/novelist/essayist, Pier Paolo Pasolini, is being remembered and celebrated at Yale University, March 6-7th, marking the 40th anniversary of the polymath's death. If you recall,...

Los Angeles Review of Books hosts a dialogue between Brian Kim Stefans and Kate Durbin in its most recent installment. Durbin and Stefans's conversation centers around themes of authenticity and...

A rather beautiful Tumblr has appeared thanks to Coffee House Press, who has, "[a]s part of its continuing effort to put books into action...launched an initiative to place writers and...

At The New Yorker, a review of Louise Glück's new book (and National Book Award finalist), Faithful and Virtuous Night (FSG 2014), by Dan Chiasson! "From its opening pages, 'Faithful...

If Ferguson, Missouri is still on your mind consider taking a gander at Jericho Brown's second book called The New Testament, handily reviewed quite recently at NPR Books: If further...

At Lambda Literary, Steven Cordova reviews Nightboat Books' gorgeous, startling Mausoleum of Lovers: Journals 1976—1991 by the French poet and intellectual Hervé Guibert, translated by Nathanaël. From 1977 to 1984,...

Direct address: BookThug has posted video and audio of Aisha Sasha John reading from her new book, THOU, which has some pretty fine press-writing around it: "In THOU, Aisha Sasha...

I will start with two quotations from the book After-Cave, written by Michelle Detorie and recently published by Ahsahta Press. The first quotation: “Time is with the animal. It has a...

Photo by Thomas Sayers Ellis Hello! Greet your week by reading a few tips from a champ--a poetry reading champ, that is! Yes we're talking about Douglas Kearney: the fabulous...

Did you know that "apiculture" is the art and science of raising honeybees? Or that Melitta Urbancic was a poet, actress, and sculptor who traveled from Austria to Iceland to...