Harriet: News & Community
A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 2, 2012
Hart Crane, one of America's most mythologized poets, had a lifelong love/hate relationship with Cleveland, where he was raised. The Los Angeles Review of Books's Anne Trubek calls him "not...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 2, 2012
The Conversant sure has a truckload of amazing things going on. For one! If you have not yet heard Ronaldo Wilson read, here is a treat. His triptych, “Street Songs,”...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 2, 2012
If you liked the "Overture" of poet Ben Pease's "Chateau Wichman: Blockbuster in Verse," an experimental video poem, you'll be excited to learn that he has posted the next three...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 2, 2012
It might seem, at first, that For Your Eyes Only is the Nevada edition of the NY Art Book Fair, which took place over the weekend. And art-wise, this rings...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 2, 2012
For those of you in Chicago who want to write some experimental poetry and turn said writing into a book, you finally have the chance to do so! Check out...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 2, 2012
From Brooklyn Poets: Our fall workshop with Dorothea Lasky. If you like what the fall does with color, well, you’ll really like this workshop. 5 weeks, Nov 4 to Dec 2,...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 2, 2012
The Guardian has just announced the winners of this year's Forward Prize, and they include the first American female winner ever--that would be Jorie Graham! And Denise Riley takes the...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 2, 2012
From the Pasadena Star News: Each of the aspiring firearms instructors had to give a 10- to 15-minute presentation to show his skills in front of a classroom. The others chose...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 1, 2012
Translationista Susan Bernofsky pays tribute to translator and UCLA professor of Slavic languages and literatures Michael Henry Heim, b. 1943, who passed away over the weekend after a battle with...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet StaffOctober 1, 2012
Congratulations to Rebecca Seiferle, Tuscon's new poet laureate. From the Arizona Daily Star: Tucson has its first poet laureate in years. Mayor Jonathan Rothschild named the accomplished poet Rebecca Seiferle as the...