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 Garrett Caples June 18, 2014
No, I never thot of MEAT SCIENCE ESSAYS in relation to LUNCH POEMS. Comes closer to NAKED LUNCH. But I don’t think anyone will think it’s derivative. Too different....What the...
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Open DoorBy Abigail Deutsch June 16, 2014
This year’s Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge—an annual benefit for New York City’s Poets House—nearly didn’t happen at all. The weather reports had been grim, “foretelling” (as Coleridge writes)...
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Open DoorBy Sara Wintz June 2, 2014
From the top left: Dorothea Lasky, Joshua Beckman, Timothy Donnelly, Terrance Hayes, Srikanth Reddy, Rachel Zucker Matthew Zapruder and I went toe-to-toe at Oakland's Boot and Shoe Service this weekend to...
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Open DoorBy Harriet Staff May 29, 2014
Books by poet/collagist contributors. A few weeks ago the Harriet staff took a field trip to check out Spudnik Press’s latest exhibition, In Clipping Signal, at The Annex. We were...
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Open DoorBy Dipika Mukherjee May 21, 2014
Student volunteers at the 2014 Irrawaddy Literary Festival. The Champak, fragrant with white blossoms growing wild on Mandalay hill, perfumes the gardens of the Mandalay Hill Resort. This is where...
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Open DoorBy Vanessa Hope Schneider May 14, 2014
In a museum, it’s challenging to represent an aesthetic movement that--though carried forward by many visual artists--began with writing. Perhaps that is why the central atrium of the Guggenheim is...
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Open DoorBy Garrett Caples May 8, 2014
Chicago at Dearborn and Randolph c. 1909. Carl Sandburg’s poem “Chicago” turned 100 the other day. That is, March 2014 marked the 100th anniversary of its original publication in Poetry, along...
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Open DoorBy Harriet Staff February 26, 2014
From left to right: Krystal Languell, Rangi McNeil, and Guillermo Felice Castro Yes it's still true, "The Poetry Project burns like red hot coal in New York's snow," as the...
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Open DoorBy Kazim Ali February 14, 2014
Kristen Stewart is hardly the first celebrity to write and share her poetry—count James Franco, Jewel, Tupac Shakur, Jimmy Carter and Ally Sheedy among her various forebears—but she might be...
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Open DoorBy Julien Poirier January 7, 2014
[Editor's Note: This "Open Door" piece is a response to Tyrone William's post "Amateur Poets and the Academy," posted on Harriet on October 21st, 2013.] When I was a student at...