Harriet: News & Community
A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Archive Editor's NoteBy Robert Eric Shoemaker January 16, 2023
Through imagining and acting on the imaginary, poetry can help make an existence to live in, thrive in, and appreciate differently.
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From Poetry MagazineBy Meg Day November 30, 2021
How do we—I’m talking to us, finally, Deaf poets—how do we find relevance in much of poetics, which denotatively pursues musicality and claims to puncture and perforate so-called silence?
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 2, 2020
Ilya Kaminsky discusses how being a refugee shaped the narrative of Deaf Republic, and Ruth Padel details her "next obsession, next creative shape," in a new conversation at Granta.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff April 27, 2020
Literary Hub shares the transcript from a live conversation between Kaminsky and Freeman that took place at BAM, centered on Kaminsky's most recent collection of poetry, Deaf Republic.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff March 12, 2020
To preface his interview with Jane Hirshfield, Ilya Kaminsky explains that he first met "Jane Hirshfield about fifteen years ago, after one of her readings in San Francisco."
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff February 19, 2020
Sally Wen Mao's Oculus and Carmen Giménez Smith's Be Recorder (both, Graywolf) are among the finalists for the LA Times Book Prize in poetry.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff February 5, 2020
Announced today are the finalists for the 2020 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff January 17, 2020
For the Paris Review's interview series, Ilya Kaminsky spends time with Garth Greenwell, whose latest novel is Cleanness.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff January 17, 2020
The PEN America/Jean Stein Book Award finalists have been announced, and include poets Anne Boyer, for The Undying, and Ilya Kaminsky, for Deaf Republic.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff January 13, 2020
On Saturday the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) announced its 2019 finalists.
