Harriet: News & Community

It's Friday, and if you're heading to the movies you can do a lot worse than checking out a flick featuring a young Allen Ginsberg! For all you beatniks out...

The Village Voice's Best of New York 2013 just hit newstands throughout the boroughs and on the interwebs. This year's Arts and Entertainment section included categories honoring the Best Lit...

From the Brown Couch, a quant coffeeshop in downtown Oakland, to the interwebs: Krupskaya Press is pleased to announce to the world that it has two new editors as of...

This inaugural winner of Split This Rock's new Freedom Plow Award, for work in poetry and activism, is reporter, activist, and poet: Eliza Griswold. Name sound familiar? Griswold recently wrote...

Cathy Wagner's new book, Nervous Device (City Lights Spotlight 2012), is given its due at Jacket2 by Virginia Konchan. The book has a polyvocal narrator, as Konchan notes, but it's...

Turns out, Sherman Alexie wasn't always a committed poet and writer. In fact, his early aspirations were to teach high school and coach basketball. We're all very glad that he...

Heard of the Kenning Anthology of Poets Theater? Know about Steve Orth and Lindsey Boldt's play, "Dating by Consensus"? Yes, that's right: Small Press Traffic in San Francisco is the...

Responses to Josef Kaplan's Kill List (Cars Are Real 2013), which we aimed at the other day, are employing the Internet's breakneck form well--Joey Yearous-Algozin has already made Real Kill...

Living in Cincinnati Ohio for thirty years, I've had my ups and downs adjusting to the cultures of the metropolitan area, quite distinct in form and emphasis from my hometown...

Looking for some interesting and innovative poetry? Here's a great place to start. The Poetry Society of America has released their New American Poets for 2013, and what a list...