Harriet: News & Community

We're not jumping out the window today, despite our troublesome inbox. Thanks much to Fazeela Jiwa, who wrote a great review of Maged Zaher's Thank You for the Window Office...

Hold onto your hats, cats! This just in from the Washington Post: Science, technology, engineering and math are not everything, even in this STEM-obsessed world. Luisa Banchoff is proof of that. She...

Third Movement (The Survivor) for Raúl Zurita * * * 1. I wrote the poem “Third Movement (The Survivor)" in my apartment in Brooklyn, on Franklin St. Zurita was living in Boston then where...

We all do, sometimes. It's just that he has a better way of writing poems about it, than the rest of us. Lawrence Giffin on the making of his poem,...

The Kenyon Review blog's Andrew David King hosts an in-depth interview with Marjorie Perloff on Italian Futurism--Part 1 of "Futurism Revisited" covers the cultural break in Marinetti's Futurism and those...

The always captivating Andrew Joron and Garrett Caples presented the eternally captivating poetry of Philip Lamantia this past week at Counterpath in Denver, CO. And we're thrilled that someone had...

We wish that we could be there! Tonight, Diaspora Dialogues hosts the first of three dinnertime conversations with poets, moderated by Meaghan Strimas. Dinner's at 6:30 at Grano Restaurant, 2035...

You might recall ON Contemporary Practice--a journal comprising highly thoughtful critical writing by poets/writers on practitioners, peers, colleagues, and other contemporaries--from back in the day, the particular recent days of...

The Times Literary Supplement's Eleanor Margolies raps on Arthur Rimbaud's unexpected relationship with puppetry and the French town of Charleville-Mézières. How did Charleville-Mézières, best known as Arthur Rimbaud’s ville natale...

The New York Times reports that Carolyn Cassady has passed away at home in England--the Beat generation writer and wife of Neal Cassady was 90 years old. Writer John Leland...