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 23, 2020
For On the Seawall, Wayne Catan brings the new edition of Jean Daive's Under the Dome: Walks With Paul Celan (City Lights Books), translated by Rosmarie Waldrop, into conversation with Pierre...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff May 1, 2017
While we were blogging away last month, Julien Poirier was in conversation with Charles Plymell at the City Lights blog, Abandon All Despair Ye Who Enter Here. Plymell was a...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff March 27, 2017
Like many of you, we're still saddened by the loss of Joanne Kyger, who died last week at the age of 82. At the City Lights blog, Garrett Caples, who...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff March 9, 2017
We have Philippe Soupault, City Lights, and Joseph Nechvatal at Hyperallergic to thank for setting the record straight on Surrealism as it rose to prominence as a leading movement of...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff January 6, 2017
At Abandon All Despair Ye Who Enter Here, poet and City Lights editor Garrett Caples pays homage to poet and City Lights author, David Meltzer. Meltzer, who passed away last...
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Featured BloggerBy Urayoán Noel September 8, 2016
It’s been a challenging twenty months for Puerto Rico. Against the backdrop of an ongoing economic and political crisis and the PROMESA bill’s imposition of a financial control board or...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff June 21, 2016
At City Lights, Garrett Caples has written an homage to Bill Berkson. Caples looks at Berkson's friendship with Frank O'Hara and other New York Schoolers; his own work and friendship...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff March 24, 2016
Writer's Almanac reminded us this morning that today is City Lights founder and legendary Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti's birthday. Happy Birthday, Mr. Ferlinghetti! From Writer's Almanac: It's the birthday of poet...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff March 18, 2016
You can't get enough of it! At City Lights's blog Abandon All Despair Ye Who Enter Here, Garrett Caples brings to readers' attention Julien Poirier's innovative poetry album Higher in...
