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 Daniel Poppick May 22, 2018
Lesley Harrison and I met in Manhattan on one of those increasingly common hot October mornings when it still feels like summer. She was visiting New York from her home...
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Open DoorBy Corina Copp January 23, 2018
Sho Sugita and I met in graduate school at Brooklyn College, where he was studying poetry, and I was in the playwriting program.
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Open DoorBy jayy dodd November 20, 2017
The Trans Day of Resilience, celebrated today, November 20th, though young in its political mobility, is an urgently visible resistance to mortality-laced rhetoric around Trans life. This effort, nationally organized...
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Open DoorBy Kazim Ali October 23, 2017
Rupi Kaur isn’t just Instagram-famous, she’s famous-famous. Apparently outselling Homer, this young woman of color from the suburbs of Toronto has become a global phenomenon in two short years. Like...
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Open DoorBy Amy King September 13, 2017
[Editor’s Note: This past summer, as John Ashbery was turning 90, Daniel Brian Jones contacted a group of poets, musicians, and artists, John Ashbery included, to read excerpts from his...
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Open DoorBy Garrett Caples May 30, 2017
Photo by Eirik Steinhoff Some stopped writing because they had written their dreams so well. I cannot stop, because I am just beginning to dream, just beginning to see through myself in the world, not so...
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Open DoorBy Brian Teare January 12, 2017
[Editor's Note: On January 12th, 2016, C. D. Wright passed away at the age of 67. Below, Brian Teare remembers Wright and pays tribute to her work and legacy.] In 2005,...
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Open DoorBy Ruben Quesada January 10, 2017
Photo by Carlo Villarica, 2010. It is simply not enough to be an artist, unengaged. If you live in political times, if the lightning rod of history quivers with fire on...
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Open DoorBy Robert Fernandez November 7, 2016
I first encountered the work of Amelia Rosselli (1930-1996) in 2006. I had been a loyal customer of Green Integer Editions, which publishes pocket-sized books by a range of international...
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Open DoorBy Harmony Holiday July 22, 2016
I've spent the past couple of weeks going to sleep at dawn after long dejected discussions with black friends and loved ones, wherein the culmination was either rallying around the...
