Harriet: News & Community
A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff January 14, 2021
Dear Readers, Poetry News will be on hiatus as we prepare for the Spring 2021 launch of Harriet Books, a books-centered website featuring original, short reviews of new and forthcoming poetry...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 31, 2020
The New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research and Culture may be temporarily closed, but librarians have been busy digitizing and curating several new research guides.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 31, 2020
At Salon, Mary Elizabeth Williams writes about the significance of Joe Biden's stutter, and about how, as a child, he would memorize poetry to help him manage his stutter.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 31, 2020
At Chicago Review of Books, Mandana Chaffa reviews five poetry collections from 2020 that she finds worth revisiting.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 31, 2020
Eunsong Kim's new essay in Michigan Quarterly Review dissects and reflects on Susan Howe's My Emily Dickinson, asking central questions "about white feminist poetry and its deployment of chattel slavery...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 31, 2020
Poet Koon Woon talks with David Fewster of Rain Taxi about describing himself as a "paper-son poet."
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 31, 2020
At San José Spotlight, Madelyn Reese tells readers about Santa Clara County's first-ever search for a youth poet laureate.Â
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 31, 2020
We are saddened to learn of the recent passing of Jean Valentine, an influential and beloved poet and educator who published fourteen poetry collections and won numerous awards.Â
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 31, 2020
At Comic Book Resources, Theo Kogod suggests five DC comics that readers of poetry might enjoy, starting with Tom King's Batman.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 30, 2020
At the New York Times, Elisa Gabbert considers the role of punctuation in two books of poetry published this year: THRESHOLES (Coffee House) by Lara Mimosa Montes and Thrown in the Throat (Milkweed) by Benjamin Garcia.
