Harriet: News & Community
A literary blog about poetry and related news
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From Poetry MagazineBy Charif Shanahan January 17, 2023
Poetry reminds me, daily, of the simultaneous singularity and plurality of human experience: for all our differences, for the ways in which we have attached meaning to those differences, hated...
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From Poetry MagazineBy Tré Seals December 5, 2022
Uniformity cannot exist in a typeface inspired by humanity.
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From Poetry MagazineBy Adrian Matejka November 21, 2022
I want to begin this editor’s note with gratitude.
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From Poetry MagazineBy The Editors November 8, 2022
If you’re new to the app, now is a great time to check it out since the October issue (our 110th anniversary issue) is currently FREE!
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From Poetry MagazineBy The Editors October 3, 2022
Poetry magazine was founded 110 years ago this month, and in celebration of this milestone, we’re offering our readers lots of special content and freebies.
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From Poetry MagazineBy Anthony Cody September 28, 2022
In my insistence on being the poet/essayist, I had managed to make myself the hero, to assume that I knew better than the poem. Perhaps this is in the western...
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From Poetry MagazineBy Yaccaira Salvatierra September 26, 2022
I had not been writing and, truthfully, I was contemplating abandoning poetry after decades of coming back to it time and time again.
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From Poetry MagazineBy Jessica Kim September 7, 2022
Although love is less frequent in my mother tongue, it lasts longer.
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From Poetry MagazineBy Hajar Hussaini May 25, 2022
I have developed affinities for poems that provide a space to rest. This is not to say that poetry can or should avert one’s eyes from political realities, but it...
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From Poetry MagazineBy Sarah Ghazal Ali May 17, 2022
When my father explained that I was named for an elevated poetic form, that an entire region’s poetic pride was embedded in my name, ghazals became a source of wonder...
