Harriet: News & Community
A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Featured BloggerBy Armen Davoudian January 30, 2023
It’s easy to get lost in debates around form and content, or form and function, or form and freedom, or form and fill-in-the-blank—arguments for the importance of one side over...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff October 22, 2020
Stephanie Farr at The Philadelphia Inquirer has the scoop on an 1847 handwritten letter from Edgar Allan Poe that's just sold at auction for $125,000.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff March 30, 2020
In the coming weeks, BBC Arts will present "Culture in Quarantine."
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff October 7, 2019
Caitlin Doyle considers how poet Richard Wilbur merged "his poetic vision with the world beyond the window" in a new essay for an online journal of literary criticism, Literary Matters.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff March 10, 2017
What inspires tormented souls to pen verses for Instagram? In her article, "The Life of an Instagram Poet," Sheila Marikar introduces New Yorker readers to one such bard. Reuben Holmes,...
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Featured BloggerBy Robert Fernandez September 1, 2015
Nocturne III A night A night full of hushings, of the curled wool of perfume And incanting wing, A night Where phantasmagoric glowworms bump in nuptial blackness, At our own pace, linked together, ...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff October 8, 2014
Did you know that Edgar Allan Poe was best known, in his lifetime, as an editor and critic whose cuttingly harsh reviews earned him the nickname "Tomahawk Man?" Or that...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff October 8, 2014
It's a good time to be Edgar Allan Poe, even if you are in the afterlife. On the 165th anniversary of his death, the city of Boston, Edgar Allan Poe's...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff March 10, 2014
Ilya Kaminsky writes about Rae Armantrout for the Boston Review blog today. Kaminsky makes the distinction between the poet as "bard and storyteller—one who who sings" and other sorts, "those...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff January 29, 2014
Paul Auster spoke recently at the Morgan Library in New York about his life in reading Edgar Allan Poe, framing this study with what he called "boy's literature." Poe, Borges,...
