Harriet: News & Community
A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJanuary 20, 2014
At The Rumpus, Warren Fong reviews Memory by Laura Jensen for "The Last Book of Poems I Loved." Jensen is based in Tacoma, Washington—the city of her birth. Memory was...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJanuary 20, 2014
We're wishing Kay Ryan a speedy recovery after a bike accident with a car over the weekend. As the Marin News reports: Former U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan was recovering in...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJanuary 17, 2014
The Volta Blog has a great review of John Paetsch's brnt ghst vlnt (Gauss PDF), which was also selected by them as one of the best books of 2013. Logan...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJanuary 17, 2014
Station Hill! Station Hill! Thank you for getting the wheels turning to publish Eating the Colors of a Lineup of Words: The Early Books of Bernadette Mayer. We've been rummaging...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJanuary 17, 2014
With all the freshly sewn quires of internet added to the digital codex every nanosecond, we know that art/lit/music/film reviews range from the strikingly awful to the wonderfully insightful (and...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJanuary 17, 2014
The editors of Commune Editions (Juliana Spahr, Joshua Clover, and Jasper Bernes) write from their experience of MLA at Jacket2. The Modern Languages Association is large enough that it is...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJanuary 17, 2014
One of the high points of the summer of 2013 was certainly the exhibition “An Opening of the Field: Jess, Robert Duncan, and Their Circle.” We poked and prodded to...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJanuary 16, 2014
It's going to be great! This year the 31st annual Tucson Poetry Festival will take place April 3-5: if you can't be there in person, be there in spirit and...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJanuary 16, 2014
Photo by Alan Bernheimer Welp, good thing we signed onto the internet today! Otherwise this fantastic review of Farnoosh Fathi's Great Guns may already be hidden by newly sprouted internet....
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffJanuary 16, 2014
Some fabtabulous news coming from our favorite Academy: Khaled Mattawa and Alberto Ríos have been named Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets. From Poets.org: The Academy of American Poets...