Harriet: News & Community
A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Featured BloggerBy Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué January 9, 2023
To call a literary work “unreadable” is to make a rather flexible aesthetic judgment. Most commonly, one means they didn’t like that work, found it too boring, too gruesome, badly...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff September 10, 2020
Paul Stephens writes about Aram Saroyan's minimal poems in an article published at the MIT Press Reader.
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From Poetry MagazineBy Holly Amos September 19, 2018
Contributors to the September 2018 issue share some recommendations.
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Featured BloggerBy Orlando White November 30, 2015
The process of writing a one-word poem on the page involves playfulness, along with the willingness to take risks with imagination—much like a toddler who scribbles letters for the first...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff October 13, 2015
At Hyperallergic, Aram Saroyan takes time to consider Philip Whalen in light of David Schneider's recent biography Crowded by Beauty: The Life and Zen of Poet Philip Whalen (UC Press,...
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From Poetry MagazineBy Lindsay Garbutt March 9, 2015
"Float" by Tauba Auerbach, 2011 The Reading List is a feature of Poetry magazine’s Editors’ Blog. This month contributors to the March 2015 issue share some books that held their...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff August 15, 2014
S.O.S. says Ugly Duckling Presse! The publisher of poetry, art books, dossiers, and all things magnifique is struggling to finance this next season's print-run. UDP is in the middle of...
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Featured BloggerBy Julien Poirier April 1, 2014
I miss New York and the poets there and I’ve dreamed (had actual dreams) about stroking through the double doors of the St. Mark’s Poetry Project to silent-movie applause—applause and...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff March 13, 2014
Ugly Duckling Presse announces a new event series, starting first at Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop. It's called Lighght! (After the Aram Saroyan poem, of course.) We love the title and...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff March 6, 2014
The folks at University Press Books in Berkeley have generously made a little extra space for just a few more students to attend Cedar Sigo's upcoming, jam-packed and very cool...
