Harriet: News & Community

At the 11th-ish hour, in a reversal of an announcement made earlier in the week, AWP seems to have worked out a deal with the City of Seattle Tax Office...

The super spectacular spectacle that is the Associated Writers and Publishers Conference—also known by friends, enemies, and frenemies as "AWP"—hits the cool town of Seattle next Thursday 'til Saturday. And...

The Atlantic has an in-depth piece on the movie Dead Poets Society being anti-intellectual, or in fact, a "terrible defense of the humanities." Writer Kevin J.H. Dettmar hates it, even...

We just found out about this magnificent photo exhibition currently up at Utah State University's Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art: Nobody Goes Home Sad: Photographs of the Six Gallery...

Jacket Copy today announced the finalist for the 2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, which include 50 books in 10 categories. We'll skip right ahead to the meat of it...

The New York Times profiles Gil Fagiani, who writes poetry as a way to ruminate and move forward from his past as a a drug-addiction survivor, political activist, and community...

St. Louis Magazine has a nice piece on the digitization of James Merrill's "Ouija manuscripts," which were transmitted to the new James Merrill Digital Archive at Washington University last summer....

On the 80th anniversary of the birth of the amazing Audre Lorde, The Feminist Wire is launching The Audre Lorde Forum, a "global (US, Europe, and the Caribbean) two-week forum...

We love when poets step outside the stanza and try their hand at other arts, especially when it comes to collage. Some of our favorite poet-collagists are John Ashbery, Keith...

For you Pataphysicians: UBU SINGS UBU! Help New York actor and Page 22 Salon co-founder (with poet Lee Ann Brown) Tony Torn to achieve his dreams of "melting our faces...