Harriet: News & Community
A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 21, 2020
At the Texas Observer, Nic Yeager asks poet Claudia Delfina Cardona about her debut poetry collection, What Remains (Host Publications) and about writing and publishing in Texas.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 21, 2020
For the Washington Post's Lifestyle section, Adrian Higgins draws on poems by Stanley Kunitz, Genine Lentine, and Louise Glück to explore some of the ways that gardening can be likened to the craft of poetry.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 21, 2020
For the New Yorker's Poetry Podcast, hosted by Kevin Young,  Margaret Atwood chose to read and discuss Saeed Jones's poem, "A Stranger," as well as her own poem, "Flatline."
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 21, 2020
The Nation has posted Tobi Haslett's introduction to Nothing but the Music, the collection of poems by Thulani Davis recently published by Blank Forms Editions.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 18, 2020
Nikki Giovanni was the inaugural guest on a new podcast series, "Community Conversations," hosted by Emory University's Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Books Library, which launched in October and features...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 18, 2020
Congratulations to André Naffis-Sahely who has been appointed Poetry London's new poetry editor!
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 18, 2020
If you're a poet with a penchant for the work published by small presses like Dalkey Archive, and we know so many of you are, you'll appreciate Open Letter Books...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 18, 2020
In 1933, King George V and his Poet Laureate, John Masefield, began to recognize excellence in poetry with the offering of a Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, the 2020 recipient of which...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 17, 2020
Every year since 2005, Poets & Writers has celebrated 10 impressive first collections by asking poets about finding time to write, their advice for writer's block, and how their books came to...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 17, 2020
The Paris Review asked its contributors to fill us in on their favorite books of 2020, and it's all Jeremy Prynne for Jeff Dolven.
