Harriet: News & Community
A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 28, 2020
At Wyoming Public Radio, Naina Rao invites Wyoming Poet Laureate Eugene Gagliano to read his poem "The Blessing of Wyoming," which was recently published in the New York Times.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 23, 2020
At Jacket2, Eric Weiskott reviews Victoria Chang's Obit (Copper Canyon, 2020), "a book of grief" that "joins a tradition of apophatic lyricism that runs through Keats, Dickinson, and Ashbery, as well...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 23, 2020
At Vulture, Halle Kiefer alerts us to A24's plans for a film adaptation of Ocean Vuong's 2019 novel, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Penguin Random House, 2019).
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 23, 2020
For On the Seawall, Wayne Catan brings the new edition of Jean Daive's Under the Dome: Walks With Paul Celan (City Lights Books), translated by Rosmarie Waldrop, into conversation with Pierre...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 23, 2020
At the Eagle-Tribune (a local newspaper covering the Merrimack Valley of Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire), Jim Sullivan writes about growing calls for president-elect Joe Biden to name Rhina Espaillat his inaugural poet.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 23, 2020
PEN America has announced its longlists for the 2021 PEN America Literary Awards!
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 23, 2020
Frances McCue writes for Geek Wire about living and writing amidst Seattle's tech industry, during the Covid-19 pandemic. "
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 22, 2020
At TIME, Suyin Haynes writes about Russian poet Galina Rymbu and a collective of feminist and LGBTQ poets called "F pis’mo" or "F Writing."
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 22, 2020
At Minnesota Public Radio News, Kerri Miller names three poetry collections her "must-reads" of this year: Claudia Rankine’s Just Us, Rachel Eliza Griffiths’s Seeing the Body, and Nikki Giovanni’s Make Me Rain.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 22, 2020
The New York Times's Best of 2020 folio is here!
