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A literary blog about poetry and related news

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  • Featured Blogger
    By Alina Stefanescu November 7, 2022

    In Critical Revolutionaries: Five Critics Who Changed the Way We Read, critic Terry Eagleton declares: “A critique must establish a certain distance from its object in order to appraise it.”...

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  • Poetry News
    By Harriet Staff December 31, 2019

    For Hyperallergic, Albert Mobilio and John Yau have selected a few of their favorite poetry books from 2019, including Arthur Sze's Sight Lines, Ann Lauterbach's Spells, and eight more.

  • Featured Blogger
    By Kazim Ali April 16, 2019

    The fragment is both the classical evocation of the lost whole as well as complete and whole containing that meaning.

    Image of Sappho papyrus fragments
  • Poetry News
    By Harriet Staff February 12, 2019

    John Yau reads Ann Lauterbach's tenth collection of poetry, Spell, at Hyperallergic.

    Ann Lauterbach, Spell, cover
  • Poetry News
    By Harriet Staff November 9, 2018

    In tandem with Ann Lauterbach and Dara Wier's reading at the Woodberry Poetry Room last Thursday, curator Christina Davis announced that John Ashbery's complete library had been donated to the space....

    Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard
  • Poetry News
    By Harriet Staff October 31, 2018

    The New York Times spotlights a few new (and noteworthy) books of poetry appearing in bookstores this month, leading with Jeffrey Yang's new collection, Hey, Marfa (Graywolf, 2018): "a fractal...

  • Featured Blogger
    By Eleni Sikelianos February 12, 2018

    As a child I belonged, absolutely, to everything. To color, to sound, to warmth, to my mother and the smell of her long purple dress with small crescent yellow moons,...

    Lynn Margulis, The Microcosmos Coloring Book, cover
  • Open Door
    By Amy King September 13, 2017

    [Editor’s Note: This past summer, as John Ashbery was turning 90, Daniel Brian Jones contacted a group of poets, musicians, and artists, John Ashbery included, to read excerpts from his...

    John Ashbery
  • Poetry News
    By Harriet Staff September 19, 2016

    The newest issue of Triple Canopy explores that all-too-human self-reflective digitally-mediated stare, the selfie, as well as further meditations by poetry, music, and visual art's most refreshingly self-aware. From Lucy...

  • Poetry News
    By Harriet Staff September 8, 2016

    Ben Fama wrote a review of Lucy Ives's newest, The Hermit (The Song Cave, 2016), for The Culture Trip. "Much of The Hermit regards the conceptualization of literature as novelistic....