Harriet: News & Community
A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Featured BloggerBy Timothy Yu November 14, 2022
For any writer, the life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge brings moments of painful recognition at every turn. Richard Holmes’s magisterial biography of Coleridge is replete with examples of the Romantic...
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Featured BloggerBy Kim Moore July 5, 2022
In the pub after a reading, a man comes up to me to tell me how men of his generation (he seems to be in his late twenties/early thirties but...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 22, 2020
At Minnesota Public Radio News, Kerri Miller names three poetry collections her "must-reads" of this year: Claudia Rankine’s Just Us, Rachel Eliza Griffiths’s Seeing the Body, and Nikki Giovanni’s Make Me Rain.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 2, 2020
The Guardian has selected its favorite poetry books of the year, with Natalie Diaz's Postcolonial Love Poem, Bhanu Kapil's How to Wash a Heart, and Claudia Rankine's Just Us receiving much-deserved praise.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 1, 2020
For the New York Times's By the Book series, Claudia Rankine answers questions about what she's reading, what she's teaching, what's on her nightstand, and more.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff November 25, 2020
The year-end lists are coming! Among the first is O, The Oprah Magazine's "Best Books of 2020," handpicked by editors and including "wondrous poetry that rabble-rouses or prompts stillness and awe."
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff November 3, 2020
At the New York Times, Maya Phillips writes about November, Phillip Youmans and Claudia Rankine's film adaptation of Rankine's play Help, which was commissioned by The Shed pre-pandemic and is now available...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff October 5, 2020
Claudia Rankine has a tête-à-tête with New Statesman—and mentions both Fleabag and Lauren Berlant.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff September 28, 2020
Claudia Rankine writes about Lizzo's past, present, and hopes for the future in the October issue of Vogue.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff September 21, 2020
Aingeal Clare reviews collections by Claudia Rankine, Michael Longley, Pascale Petit, and David Morley in The Guardian's latest roundup of newly published poetry.
