Harriet: News & Community
A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Open DoorBy Jennifer Scappettone November 21, 2022
Maps, oh maps! […] sometimes in my sleep, I find myself walking on a map-like space, searching for a place I can at last call my own. But it always...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff July 8, 2019
"These interruptions, making fragments out of narrative space, question the very basis of experience, of being a participant and a witness," says Renee Gladman.
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Featured BloggerBy Lotte L.S. May 20, 2019
How broad can something be; how much can a form hold before the form is compromised; how inclusive can a poem, a movement, an insurrection be before its “aim” is...
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Featured BloggerBy Lotte L.S. May 13, 2019
I spent too long wondering, is to heal a wound to allow what has been experienced or learnt to fade, to expire, to forget, to disappear?
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff July 18, 2017
Open Space has published a selection of recordings from the archives of The Poetry Project, now housed in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress. Chosen and introduced...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff November 9, 2015
"It was a message of happiness by which we were called into the room, / as if to receive a birthday present given early": Quite. Yes, the highly, highly anticipated,...
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Featured BloggerBy Amy King August 26, 2015
[Editor's Note: Part 1 of "Call and Response: The Gifts of Women Poets" can be found here.] On Carolyn Kizer Carolyn Kizer was my poetry mentor, great friend and goddess. Here is an...
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Featured BloggerBy Brandon Shimoda April 30, 2015
I became the corpse, because—and then, it floats away again. —Alice Notley, In the Pines recall, translucent and disposable, the remaining corpses. —Roberto Tejada, Lost Continent And one day the age will rise, Like a...
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Featured BloggerBy Philip Jenks April 30, 2015
Tribute to ...Pinsky, Walcott?. Poet, Educator, Mentor The cold, cyclical dark, turning and returning. Even in the scorched and frozen world of the dead after the holocaust The wheel as it turns goes...
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Featured BloggerBy Patrick James Dunagan April 23, 2015
… language as it is embodied, perpetually being created. Composition takes place in the liminal moment of history-in-the-making, at the ‘rim of occurrence’ (Leslie Scalapino). We compose ourselves, our locus,...
