Harriet: News & Community
A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Open DoorBy Jennifer Scappettone November 21, 2022
Maps, oh maps! […] sometimes in my sleep, I find myself walking on a map-like space, searching for a place I can at last call my own. But it always...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 10, 2020
The Whiting Foundation has announced the recipients of the 2020 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant!
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff May 11, 2020
With the cancellation of the March Split This Rock Poetry Festival as his starting point, Brandon Shimoda's latest contribution to futurefeed illuminates concepts like ancestry, silence, and shame within Japanese American literature, all set before the backdrop of the...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff August 9, 2019
Poet Brandon Shimoda reflects on the work of five artists who are descendants of those interred during the period of Japanese-American incarceration.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 6, 2018
Entropy released its much-anticipated list, "Best of 2018: Best of Poetry Books & Poetry Collections," this week. In no particular order, titles include Trickster Feminism, by Anne Waldman (Penguin Poets); Letters to the...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff January 20, 2017
For Inauguration Day, Brandon Shimoda delivered a talk at the Holocaust History Center at the Jewish History Museum, in Tucson, Arizona; and the Asian American Writers' Workshop has published it....
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 29, 2016
We can't let this one pass us by: Earlier this month, poet Brandon Shimoda reflected on downtown Portland's Japanese American Historical Plaza, built to commemorate the internment of Japanese Americans...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff April 1, 2016
This year for National Poetry Month we've decided to try something different. Starting on Monday and running through April, the blog will be guest-edited by four past Harriet contributors: Dawn...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff August 6, 2015
A crucial new issue of Evening Will Come is out, compiled and edited by Brandon Shimoda in remembrance of the 70th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (August 6 and 9)....
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Featured BloggerBy Cassandra Troyan May 1, 2015
Carrie: i'm reading your piece on tract – trace "The ground is like a bad omen. You can drag a stone back to the place of departure and still be stuck in...
