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 December 11, 2017
A must-read anthology (not a phrase you read every day, unless you tune into Harriet on the reg), A TransPacific Poetics (Litmus Press, 2017), edited by Lisa Samuels and Sawako Nakayas, is reviewed...
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Featured BloggerBy Jill Magi October 16, 2017
This summer into early fall I received three gifts: a chapbook from Eléna Rivera, a chapbook from Brenda Iijima, and an anthology edited by Lisa Samuels and Sawako Nakayasu. I am...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff October 17, 2016
Leslie Scalapino, photo by Tom White This just in: Brigid McLeer is the recipient of the third annual Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Playwrights. In memory of Leslie Scalapino...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff February 18, 2016
At Litmus Press's Tumblr, a short post about Tom Raworth's "expansive geography," with a revisit of the excellent book Tottering State (O Books, 2000). "One of the first questions I...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 18, 2015
Nina Puro reviewed Khadijah Queen’s new play Non-Sequitur--winner of the 2014 Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Performance Writers (as we mentioned!)--for Weird Sister. The play, produced and directed by...
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Featured BloggerBy Divya Victor April 28, 2014
Considering Two Vandals of History: Hugo García Manríquez (2014) and “Thompson of Sunderland” (c. 1850) The “miscreant” is someone who breaks the law or, etymologically, is a mischief-maker who, in spirit,...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff September 30, 2013
Announcing Aufgabe DIGITAL! This is fateless news for those of us fascinated by poetry in translation, contemporary poetry in English (hey!), and thoroughly engaged critical writing, too, we must say....
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff September 19, 2013
You heard it here: The winner of the inaugural Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Playwrights is Joyelle McSweeney! McSweeney's winning script, Dead Youth, or, The Leaks, will be published...
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Featured BloggerBy Jen Hofer May 3, 2013
View from Highway 170 off-ramp at Sherman Way, North Hollywood. We can take refuge/in something other than the mind for image does/not always follow content. —Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, from “Catabolism” Catabolism, according...
