Harriet: News & Community
A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffNovember 8, 2013
Thanks, NYT, for getting the scoop on one of our favorite poets and fiction writers, Sherman Alexie. We love hearing what poets read, where they read, and who they have...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffNovember 8, 2013
That subject line uses Claudia Rankine writing on Serena Williams at the 2009 US Open ("Be Angry") for issue #6 of Lana Turner, which's got in accompaniment poems by Chris...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffNovember 8, 2013
This one's in from NPR, Carmen Giménez Smith reviews Harryette Mullen's newest and lovely creation, Urban Tumbleweed: Notes from a Tanka Diary, out now from Graywolf Press. The pastoral is...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffNovember 7, 2013
Behold! All hail Lady Ottoline: beloved unsung patron of the Bloomsbury Group! Ahem. Erm... what we meant to say was, that the uh, world-renowned publisher of contemporary poetry and fiction,...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffNovember 7, 2013
Uh, yes: a martini, please? Who's that? Oh, Ms. Parker! So lovely to see you! ...Eh, we're a few years late. But Kevin Fitzpatrick of The Dorothy Parker Society, offers...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffNovember 7, 2013
She's in the spotlight! Sophia Le Fraga talks with HTMLGiant's Andrew Worthington about her glamorous literary lifestyle. Andrew Worthington: Where are you right now? Sophia Le Fraga : I am…FUCK…I am at work,...
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Featured BloggerBy Carmen Giménez SmithNovember 7, 2013
On December 10 of this year, Copper Canyon will be publishing an anthology edited by Forrest Gander and Raúl Zurita called Pinholes in the Night: Essential Poems from Latin America....
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffNovember 7, 2013
We're grateful to Andrew Epstein for pointing us to this rare footage of a poetry reading featuring Frank O’Hara, Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka (then LeRoi Jones), and Ray Bremser at...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffNovember 7, 2013
Poet, performer, and filmmaker Stephanie Barber has made her first feature-length film, Daredevils, which premiered recently at the New York Film Festival. Rachael Rakes has reviewed it for The Brooklyn...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffNovember 6, 2013
Today we found the second installment of the great and wonderful poet/visual-artist David-Baptiste Chirot's Cinema of Catharsis, presented by Jerome Rothenberg, up at Jacket2. Somehow we missed the first installment,...