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 Francesca DeMusz June 24, 2016
All the way from Myrtle Broadway to Broadway Lafayette to 72nd Street and from Strawberry Fields to Sheep’s Meadow, I hoped I’d run into anyone looking like me who might...
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Open DoorBy Cynthia Cruz March 10, 2016
I have been thinking of ways in which writers have vanished—the way they have vanished themselves from the literary world and from the world itself.
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Open DoorBy Jericho Brown February 1, 2016
Suicide’s Note by Langston Hughes The calm, Cool face of the river Asked me for a kiss. The desire to be dead and the desire not to be alive and the desire to kill oneself...
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Open DoorBy Daniel Borzutzky March 24, 2015
Raúl Zurita's "La vida nueva," written in the sky above New York on June 2, 1982. This interview took place on Sunday, April 13, 2014 in the lobby of the Washington...
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Open DoorBy Harriet Staff January 19, 2015
This past fall during Open House Chicago, the Poetry Foundation and La Maison de la Poésie collaborated on an audio installation that brought together 6 poets from Paris and Chicago,...
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Open DoorBy Sara Wintz December 4, 2014
From left to right: Stephanie Young, David Buuck, Christian Nagler. Photo by Sara Wintz At the end of summer, I went back to school and sat down with three Bay Area...
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Open DoorBy Garrett Caples November 25, 2014
[Editor's Note: Garrett Caples delivered a version this talk at the Poetry Foundation on November 6, 2014 as part of the Harriet Reading Series. Other "Open Door" features can be...
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Open DoorBy Andrew Joron November 18, 2014
Henri Michaux (1899–1984) was a Belgian writer and artist (later a French citizen) of startling originality. Associated with the surrealists, he charted an independent path into the unknown, travelling widely...
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Open DoorBy Harriet Staff November 14, 2014
[Editor's Note: The Miami Book Fair International opens this weekend. This year the Fair is partnering with the Poetry Foundation to present a generous gathering of contemporary American poets. Adam...
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Open DoorBy Lucy Ives November 12, 2014
[Editor's Note: Lucy Ives delivered a version this talk at the Poetry Foundation on October 9, 2014 as part of the Harriet Reading Series. Other "Open Door" features can be...
