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 Noah Warren November 8, 2021
Non enim erat tunc. There was no then. —St. Augustine (epigraph to M. NourbeSe Philip's “Sal,” from Zong!) In my earlier post (here), I began where I was, trying to ground—physically, epistemologically—some experimental work. I read...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff February 28, 2018
Diana Whitney at the San Francisco Chronicle reviews three new poetry collections: Evie Shockley's semiautomatic (Wesleyan University Press, 2018); James Crews's Telling My Father (Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2018); and Nicole Sealey's Ordinary Beast (Ecco,...
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Featured BloggerBy Jill Magi October 9, 2017
Last month I watched the film “I Am Not Your Negro”[1] and I dialed in as James Baldwin asked what it is about white people that their identity should need...
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Featured BloggerBy Lillian-Yvonne Bertram April 19, 2017
In this year, the centennial celebration of the writer Gwendolyn Brooks, I attended the National Black Writers Conference Biennial Symposium aptly titled “Our Miss Brooks.” One of the conference organizers...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff January 20, 2016
At Boston Review, a "Teacher Feature" features teachers Evie Shockley, Shane McCrae, DeSales Harrison, and Heather Christle! To welcome the new school semester, these four have written about "the texts...
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Featured BloggerBy Daniel Borzutzky December 29, 2014
It is not enough to suppress the adversary if you do not erase her memory and her ability to organize an alternative project... In the face of this strategy, we...
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Featured BloggerBy Stephanie Young April 3, 2014
written for a performance with Dohee Lee and Simon Pettet on March 28, 2014 Poetry is not for the passive. It is, as Mayakovsky knew, at its very heart tendentious. Even...
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Featured BloggerBy Stephanie Young April 1, 2014
It’s poetry month. It is also, in the United States, the month of Autism Awareness, Jazz Appreciation, Confederate History, Arab American Heritage, Child Abuse Prevention, Sexual Assault Awareness, and Financial...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff July 17, 2013
If you’re in NYC this sweltering summer and can bear to temporarily venture outside of air conditioning, the Academy of American Poets will make it worth your while. The Academy...
