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  • Foundation News
    By Harriet Staff May 9, 2017

    Today, we are excited to announce Joy Harjo has been awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for lifetime achievement and contribution to the art of poetry. Of Harjo's poetry, Don...

  • Poetry News
    By Harriet Staff October 13, 2016

    Bob Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival, 1964 For years Bob Dylan's named circulated as a long-shot for the Nobel (100/1 odds in 2011), and today we are surprised and...

  • Foundation News
    By Harriet Staff September 1, 2016

    We have some news for you today! Kaveh Akbar, Jos Charles, Angel Nafis, Alison C. Rollins, and Javier Zamora are this year's Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows....

  • Foundation News
    By Harriet Staff May 11, 2016

    The Poetry Foundation, and we at Harriet, are overjoyed to announce Ed Roberson has received the 2016 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for outstanding lifetime achievement in the art of...

  • Foundation News
    By Harriet Staff May 6, 2015

    Stop the poetry presses! We at Harriet are thrilled to announce that the 2015 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize goes to Alice Notley! The prize will be presented on June 8th...

  • Foundation News
    By Michael Slosek April 2, 2015

    Today we released the first episode of PoetryNow, a new 5 minute podcast and radio broadcast created in partnership with the Poetry Foundation and WFMT in Chicago, featuring poets reading...

  • Foundation News
    By Robert Polito June 4, 2014

    From left to right: Marie Ponsot, John Ashbery, Robert Polito. This is the first of an ongoing series of occasional and topical notes to the poetry community from Robert Polito,...

  • Foundation News
    By Harriet Staff May 6, 2014

    We at Harriet are thrilled to announce the winners of this year's set of big awards: The 2014 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, which honors a living U.S. poet for outstanding lifetime...

  • Foundation News
    By Catherine Halley October 22, 2013

    The Poetry Foundation library is haunted by the ghost of Emily Dickinson these days. Or so it seems. We've borrowed a copy of the poet's only surviving dress from the Emily...

  • Foundation News
    By Harriet Staff July 2, 2013

    If you're a teen in Chicago and you're reading this, it's time to get away from the computer and get thee to the PF for a summer poetry camp. Starting...