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 July 24, 2020
In a new review for Jacket2, David Buuck revisits 2015's The Undying Present (Krupskaya), by Syd Staiti.
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Open DoorBy Corina Copp July 1, 2019
Consider what is to follow a snapshot of an outpouring—a tender position, what we call grief.
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Featured BloggerBy David Lau April 5, 2017
1 Boots Riley Under signs of the ruthless gangsterism of American politics, we made it to 2017, the centennial of the Russian Revolution. 1917, a land of lost left-wing dinosaurs, is...
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Featured BloggerBy Anne Boyer January 14, 2016
I thought I was telling a joke when I woke up from surgery and said, to the sirens of the ambulance, “Beyonce,” but it came out weirder, like a poem....
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Featured BloggerBy Anne Boyer January 11, 2016
“Chemotherapy is boring,” I’d warn people, and “cancer is terrifying but mostly banal,” and it was true, but by the time Juliana Spahr came to visit, I’d discovered cheap blonde...
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Featured BloggerBy Anne Boyer January 7, 2016
The pathology report was terrifying. It said the primary tumor was ugly: highly aggressive triple negative breast cancer, necrotic, reproducing at a rate beyond fast. And my friends, many of...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff June 19, 2015
Obscure discovery! "Canadian punk rock band Propagandhi once quoted Karen Brodine's poem 'Journal Entries' from her book Illegal Assembly [(Hanging Loose Press 1980)] in a song from their 1995 split...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff March 23, 2015
Robin Tremblay-McGaw continues her turn as the best field reporter in the Bay Area, with this blog post on X Poetics about the March 1 meeting of feminist minds, co-sponsored...
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Open DoorBy Sara Wintz December 4, 2014
From left to right: Stephanie Young, David Buuck, Christian Nagler. Photo by Sara Wintz At the end of summer, I went back to school and sat down with three Bay Area...
