Open Door
The Harriet “Open Door” section features one-time posts that document the dynamic interaction poetry creates through community, scholarship, and performances, and in response to current events.
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Open DoorBy Harriet Staff December 23, 2022In keeping with our annual tradition, Poetry Foundation staff share a book (or two, or more) that brought them joy, or comfort, or pleasure this year. *** Janet Cheung, Web Producer I would...
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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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Open DoorBy Brenda Coultas January 19, 2021
I first met Lewis in 1994, upstairs in the office of The Poetry Project where I had just started working after finishing my MFA at the Naropa Institute (University). He said that he...
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Open DoorBy Karthik Purushothaman December 15, 2020
The Voice of Sheila Chandra (Alice James, 2020) is Kazim Ali’s seventh book of poems. In it, Ali explores the overlapping narratives of the past to consider what “history” really...
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Open DoorBy Lily Meyer December 1, 2020
Claire Malroux is one of France’s preeminent living poets. Known for blurring the boundaries between past and present and, as she put it to me, between small-h history and big-H...
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Open DoorBy M. Buna November 18, 2020
Perhaps best known for her 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale, on which the award-winning television series of the same name was based, the Canadian author Margaret Atwood has produced an...
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Open DoorBy André Naffis-Sahely October 13, 2020
Tales of exile tend to reveal history’s subtle ironies. While one of my great-great-grandfathers fled Baku in the wake of Stalin’s communist takeover in 1917, relocating to the Iranian shores...
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Open DoorBy Alexandra Teague September 8, 2020
The only book I have signed by Eavan Boland is The Lost Land, from the first reading of hers I attended, when she came to Florida just after I finished...
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Open DoorBy David Grundy March 9, 2020
Sean Bonney’s final book was called Our Death, but in this essay I want to emphasize the life his work held, the vitality with which it can still imbue our...
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Open DoorBy Garrett Caples December 2, 2019
There is little in American poetry that anticipates the poems of Samuel Greenberg, and neither the defects of his prosody nor the difficulties he presents to our understanding diminish the...
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Open DoorBy Benji Hart November 20, 2019
I imagined what it might look like to reject the city of New York’s response to Layleen Cubilette-Polanco’s murder by rewriting it.
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Open DoorBy Harmony Holiday October 24, 2019
The music of the resurrected Black myth begins as poems that arrive like spells and bind like spells and unwind as song.
