Harriet: News & Community
A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Featured BloggerBy Karthika Naïr January 23, 2023
चीन ओ अरब हमारा, हिन्दोस्ताँ हमारा रहने को घर नहीं है, सारा जहाँ हमारा खोली भी छिन गयी है, बैंचें भी छिन गयी हैं सड़कों पे घूमता है, अब कारवां हमारा Chin-o-Arab hamara, Hindustan...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff February 12, 2020
Julie R. Enszer reviews three books for The Rumpus this week.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff August 5, 2019
At LARB, Juster provides some context about Hacker's life and poetry career predating her latest volume, Blazons: New and Selected Poems, 2000–2018, published by Carcanet earlier this year. For example, Hacker,...
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Featured BloggerBy Lillian-Yvonne Bertram April 19, 2017
In this year, the centennial celebration of the writer Gwendolyn Brooks, I attended the National Black Writers Conference Biennial Symposium aptly titled “Our Miss Brooks.” One of the conference organizers...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff January 13, 2016
The Associated Press reports that Brenda Hillman has been named chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. The academy told The Associated Press on Tuesday that Hillman will serve for six...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff October 2, 2015
As Garrett Caples writes in to the City Lights blog, there are two events this month that are be-there-or-be-square terrain for the East Bay poetry crowd: on Saturday, October 25,...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff September 15, 2015
The National Book Foundation has announced the names of poets on this year's "longlist" for the 2015 National Book Award for Poetry. Finalists include poets both established and emerging. More,...
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Featured BloggerBy Brandon Shimoda April 16, 2015
During the plague, my tour-book described, this cemetery (the only one within the city walls) was so full of bodies that when they dug, they couldn’t find enough soil to...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff March 9, 2015
Jacket Copy hosts Carol Muske-Dukes's recent article about Tom Sleigh, Marilyn Hacker, Deborah Landau, and Cecilia Woloch: four poets who, like Claudia Rankine, witness and critique four very different worlds...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff June 6, 2014
From left to right: Anne Carson, Scott Griffin, Brenda Hillman. Yesterday we were thrilled to hear the good news that Brenda Hillman's Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire and Anne...
