Harriet: News & Community

Wow, what a line-up! City Lights has alerted us to this amazing event taking place at the San Francisco Public Library this Sunday. From their blog: This Sunday September 9th, three...

Roberto Tejada discusses the lively literary and artistic community in Mexico City, and Mandorla, a bilingual magazine he founded in the early 90s, over at BOMB. Here, Tejada tells the...

When we look at a map, what do we really see? Is there such thing as cartographic neutrality? An essay on the Paris Review website dwells on Elizabeth Bishop's geographic...

Check out this article from Buffalo News about a fantastic series of poetic events in conjunction with the Olmsted Parks. From the article: This fall, in conjunction with Buffalo State College's...

This is great. Head over to Kate Schapira's blog and check out her Make It Rain project. She writes: The Make it Rain Project, a poetic effort to gather funds for public...

From NY Times: In 1996, Jack Agüeros, a Puerto Rican author and activist who wrote sonnets about the immigrant poor and Latino street life, would have seemed an unlikely candidate...

To keep us all informed, here's more info on CAConrad's Poetry Hotel from a longer piece in That Music Magazine: Poetry seems to be prolific, yet widely dispersed in Philadelphia. What’s...

The next installment of Small Press Beat is up over at Tin House. This time, Drew Swenhaugen talks with Ben Fama about his various writing and publishing ventures. Here's a...

Head over to BOMBLOG for this interview Sarah V. Schweig conducted with Sharon Olds. Here's a sample, in which Olds talks about metaphor and her writing process over the years: SVS...

! The Poetry Society of America proudly presents the opening lines of Mary Jo Bang's translation of Dante's Inferno! Here, the narrator becomes lost in a forest and comes upon a...