Harriet: News & Community
A literary blog about poetry and related news
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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 Corina Copp July 1, 2019
Consider what is to follow a snapshot of an outpouring—a tender position, what we call grief.
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Featured BloggerBy Brenda Coultas November 26, 2018
In keeping with the earlier posts of a sense of working within a community, this final post is designed, hopefully, to give a glimpse of where I am writing from.
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Featured BloggerBy Patricia Spears Jones April 12, 2017
. . . . . What happened? they ask a question without an answer—our confusion —David Rivard, “Freedom in the Midst” . Insight often disappears but leaves residues, . . . —Elizabeth Alexander, “The Gift” . There...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff March 6, 2017
The new issue of the Brooklyn Rail is out, and features a conversation between teacher, writer, and Belladonna* co-founder Rachel Levitsky and Ana Paula of the Rail on the occasion...
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Featured BloggerBy John Sakkis May 1, 2015
10. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy And Its Consequences- John Allen Paulos I think I borrowed this book from my Dad in the 80s. There are roughly 7 billion people living today, every...
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Featured BloggerBy John Sakkis April 14, 2015
[I’m writing about Day 1 of the &Now conference (my only day) on Delta Flight 1151 SF to Minneapolis on the way to AWP, so let’s not get our writers...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff January 7, 2015
How about some killer contest news? Here's one: Wonder has just announced the winner of the 2014 Wonder Book Prize, judged by Rachel Levitsky, which goes to Uljana Wolf for...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff July 16, 2014
At Jacket2, we're glad for Maggie Zurawski writing about Theory, A Sunday (Belladonna 2013), the recently translated version of a remarkable Canadian book on feminism and poetics that came out...
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Featured BloggerBy Stephanie Young April 14, 2014
The music was designed to be continuously looped as a sound installation, with the intent to diffuse the tense, anxious atmosphere of an airport terminal. Maybe what I mean is more...
