Harriet: News & Community

Don't know if you've lately been to Emory University's terrific nonsite.org, but their tenth issue is devoted to Bertolt Brecht! As writer Jennifer Ashton puts it in her piece for...

We awoke today to find that Goodreads, the site dedicated to community book reviews, has changed its terms of service and deleted comments focused on author behavior. And what sort...

This Saturday, 4 PM at Loretta Howard Gallery (NYC) Maureen Howard, Marcella Durand, and Todd Colby celebrate the gallery's newest exhibit "John Ashbery Collects: Poet Among Things" with most-welcome poetic...

Virtuosity, sheer eloquence, in great work has its own meanings: in the best Shakespeare sonnets, as a kind of sexual display or gift to the courted person, with the acrobatic...

We mean besides that magnetic poetry kit you've been using on the regular. Ava Seave reports on the age of Motionpoems, Rap Genius, and APR at Forbes: Digital tools and...

Turns out high school students aren't to blame for dozing off while reading The Divine Comedy-- Giuseppe Plazzi, an Italian neuro-motor scientist recently claimed that the rhetoric of Dante's canonical...

As we mentioned yesterday, African poet Kofi Awoonor (1935-2013) was among those slain in a terrorist attack on a mall in Nairobi, Kenya. As The Wall Street Journal reported...

Brandon Brown is editing a new feature over at SFMOMA's Open Space, ON THE CONTEMPORARY! For his first go, he's asked Frances Richard, author of Anarch (Futurepoem 2012), about, well,...

Zurita with Forrest Gander. Photo by Valerie Mejer. Now as I’ve started writing there is a persistent light rain falling, known as the chipi-chipi, under the stone arches and on...

The poet and storyteller passed away in Mexico City on Sunday: he was 90 years old. From the Guardian: Prolific Colombian writer and poet Álvaro Mutis Jaramillo has died in Mexico City....