Harriet: News & Community

As we mentioned in January of this year, 2013, "Amherst College [has] digitized and published all their manuscript holdings of poems, letters, and whatnot by the Belle of Amherst herself...

Environmental Sculpture by Andy Goldsworthy Last month I participated in a workshop on digital archives (specifically, the conversion of analog recordings into digital files) in the Langsam Library at the...

Our good friends at BlazeVox have piqued our interest with this teaser/trailer ("from the mind of Kent Johnson") for an upcoming movie to be released everywhere on Halloween, Oct. 31,...

We're thrilled to see Robert Pinsky's Poetry Forum continuing on after we hosted a series of "Open Door" pieces last month, penned by the former PLOTUS himself. Those pieces discussing...

The Los Angeles Review of Books is rich in poetry this week. We pointed you to this roundtable discussion earlier, now make your way over to check out a conversation...

The four letters by Robert Creeley in our October 2013 issue trace some of his evolving feelings toward poetry (and Poetry) over the course of the fifties and sixties. These...

1913 Press, publisher of 1913 a journal of forms as well as books by Jane Lewty, Biswamit Dwibedy, Shin Yu Pai, Arielle Greenberg & Rachel Zucker is crowd-funding via Indiegogo...

Infinite congratulations to the winners of the 2013 Whiting Writers' Awards, including (poets) Ishion Hutchinson and Rowan Ricardo Phillips. This just in from Jacket Copy: To be an emerging writer who...

Jane Gregory's new (first) book, My Enemies (The Song Cave 2013), is given a close-read by Charles Altieri, writing for Feedback (the critical theory blog-arm of Open Humanities Press). "Reading...

Chris Tysh's Our Lady of the Flowers, Echoic (Les Figues Press 2013) is reviewed by Josh Coblentz at HTMLGIANT. Coblentz writes of the "bold task of versifying Jean Genet's hallucinatory...