Harriet: News & Community

Not to be missed, though we almost did miss this one, is Alan Gilbert's review of two books of collected/selected letters: Amiri Baraka and Edward Dorn: The Collected Letters and...

Hurrah! She's the queen! Congratulations to Ms. Khadijah Queen, winner of this year's Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Performance Writing. This prize, in memory of Leslie Scalapino and her commitment...

New York Times reports that off-beat, intelligent publishing house, McSweeney's, is adding a new feather to its cap: non-profit status. The San Francisco-based publisher, founded by Dave Eggers, has been...

Asymptote's fall issue is here! This looks incredible. Not heard? It's a "new international journal dedicated to literary translation and bringing together in one place the best in contemporary writing."...

At Jacket2, Sarah Dowling thinks through multilingual writing in the poetry of Garry Thomas Morse, and argues that "In asking that we attend to the untranslatable, to the unassimilable, multilingual...

Hurray! Congratulations to Dorothea Lasky who NYC's own Village Voice has named 'Best Local Poet 2014!' We can't think of a better winner. (Afterall, have you read Thunderbird?) Read all...

The San Francisco Bay Area is in the grip of the worst drought since the dust bowl, but thankfully there are more than a few souls who are making it...

Adobe Digital Editions has been fielding harsh criticism since users found out that the latest version of Adobe Digital Editions is collecting user-data and sending it back to Adobe. According...

Hip-hip-hurray! The National Book Foundation announced this morning the finalists for the 2014 National Book Award in the categories of: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and young people's literature. We'll be nail-biting...

The Poetry Project's second round of coveted “Emerge-Surface-Be” mentor fellowships has been announced! (We were happy to help ya apply last year, and also featured an Open Door piece with...