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A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 17, 2020
At Vanity Fair, Laura Regensdorf writes about Rachel Rabbit White, author of  Porn Carnival (Wonder, 2019) and the forthcoming Porn Carnival: Paradise Edition (Wonder, 2020), who is newly engaged to Nico Walker and shares excerpts...
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Poetry News
Brian Dillon's New Book Focuses on Sentences From Anne Boyer, Robert Smithson, Joan Didion, and More
By Harriet Staff December 17, 2020At LARB, Katie da Cunha Lewin looks carefully at Brian Dillon's new book, Suppose a Sentence (New York Review Books, 2020), which is "composed of essays of varying length, each focused on a single...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 16, 2020
Erin Becker looks back to Lisa Rogal's chapbook, Feed Me Weird Things (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018) for a review at MAKE Literary Magazine.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 16, 2020
In a new review for The Baffler, Karthik Purushothaman considers Philip Metres's most recent collection, Shrapnel Maps (Copper Canyon, 2020).
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 16, 2020
At Hyperallergic, Mark Scroggins reviews two new poetry collections: Uche Nduka's Facing You (City Lights, 2020) and Catherine Wagner's Of Course (Fence, 2020).
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 16, 2020
Iowa-based magazine Little Village shares word that Marvin Bell, who taught for many years at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and served as the state of Iowa's first poet laureate, has died...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 16, 2020
At San Francisco Chronicle, Tony Bravo writes about Gene Kahane's efforts to bring socially-conscious poetry to the residents of Alameda in a pandemic.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 15, 2020
Poets & Writers staff dive into the deep end of the situation at Poets House, with a thorough article that surveys everything from the organization's abrupt closing and mass firing, to the ensuing...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 15, 2020
Last week, the Feminist Press released a new edition of Meena Alexander's Fault Lines to commemorate the two-year-anniversary of her death.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 15, 2020
Kevin Young's African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song (Library of America) is "much more diasporic than 'African American' might seem to suggest," says Amber Rose Johnson in an interview with...
