Harriet: News & Community

In scrolling the interwebs this morning we stumbled on this great, recently posted video of Paul Celan reading "Allerseelen / All Souls (Day)" on German television. Also in Paul Celan news,...

The rob mclennan interview lamp is set on The Catenary Press, based in Iowa City and Walla Walla, WA. Editors Daniel Poppick and Rob Schlegel talk about the small press,...

Kwame Dawes, author of sixteen books of poetry and a 1986 alumnus of the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program (IWP), will host a live-stream memorial reading of Kofi Awoonor's...

Patrick James Dunagan reviews Jenni Quilter's Jane Freilicher: Painter Among Poets at BookSlut-- leading us to exclaim: buy this book! It sounds great! "Dear Necessary Angel -- Why don't you...

Here for real: it's a cameo appearance by Bernadette Mayer up at Artforum's October online. Let's take a peek at a few of her picks: 1 MICHAEL RUBY, CLOSE YOUR EYES...

Yesterday wasn't a good day in print for NYC. Up at Guernica: Poet and Fence editor/publisher Rebecca Wolff skips over nothing in her essay-response to Joan Didion's famous piece on...

At the Huffington Post, Carl McColman considers the role religion played in later life and work of Denise Levertov. McColman reminds us that a full-fledged Levertov revival is underway (not...

The Internet's favorite thing to talk about hosted SNL this past weekend—before you get excited, we're not talking about that cat with the flat face and missing teeth, we're talking...

The Huffington Post smartly got poet, novelist, and former Harriet editor Travis Nichols to talk with national treasure Ron Padgett! Padgett's Collected Poems will be out in November from Coffee...

Hyperallergic is doing us sensitive good today, offering an exclusive look at RoseLee Goldberg's Performa Surrealist Reader. As they write: During the press preview for Performa 13, the performance biennials’s...