Harriet
-
Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff
At the New Statesman, Eimear McBride discusses the challenges that Osip Mandelstam faced as a poet in Soviet Russia. Perhaps most telling is this segment of McBride's article, "By the...
-
Featured BloggerBy Oli Hazzard
This morning I came across a passage in an essay (Frederick Ahl’s “Ars Est Cameleer Artem,” in On Puns, edited by Jonathan Culler) which describes a scene in Cicero’s On...
-
Featured BloggerBy Uche Nduka
Photo by Guo Feng John High—poet and prose stylist—writes because he feels driven to do so. American and foreign landscapes and voices populate his poems. A contemporary visionary, it is...
-
Featured BloggerBy Dana Ward
So, we're still at the Comet, perhaps thinking through an atmosphere that I described before, a dazzling sky of unknowable pleasures & speeds, losing control while also piloting wild dirigibles...
-
Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff
Many thanks to Ron Silliman for posting this wonderful video of an interview with Nadezhda Mandelstam, Russian poet Osip Mandelstam's widow and author of the two incredibly fascinating memoirs Hope...
-
Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff
From The Guardian: Jen Hadfield was named the winner of the Edwin Morgan International Poetry Prize 2012 in an award ceremony at Edinburgh International Book Festival on Saturday. Her poem, The...
The Poetry Foundation's blog for poetry and related news.