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A literary blog about poetry and related news

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    By Timothy Yu November 14, 2022

    For any writer, the life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge brings moments of painful recognition at every turn. Richard Holmes’s magisterial biography of Coleridge is replete with examples of the Romantic...

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  • Poetry News
    By 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...

  • Poetry News
    By Harriet Staff May 12, 2020

    Susan Howe's latest collection, Concordance (New Directions), contains "many wonders," writes Mark Scroggins at Hyperallergic.

  • Poetry News
    By Harriet Staff June 20, 2019

    Stray: A Graphic Tone "pairs two poets who are experts of sound, language, and archive — Nathaniel Mackey and Susan Howe."

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  • Poetry News
    By Harriet Staff June 8, 2018

    Last night, at a star-studded ceremony in Toronto, the Griffin Trust awarded the 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize to Susan Howe's latest collection, Debths, and This Wound Is a World, by Billy-Ray Belcourt. Reporting...

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  • Poetry News
    By Harriet Staff April 23, 2018

    In the new issue of Bookforum, Emily LaBarge writes "A Poet of the Archives," which considers Susan Howe's relationship to the archive, and her recent book, Debths (New Directions, 2017): "[Howe] perceives and...

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    By Jennifer Moxley April 23, 2018

    In communities of poets, one can sometimes perceive a faint hum of grumbling ambivalence about the fact that many of us fell in love with, were made smart about, and...

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  • Poetry News
    By Harriet Staff January 15, 2018

    John Vincler considers works by Susan Howe, including Spontaneous Particulars: The Telepathy of Archives, underlining the poet's engagement with archives. "It is as if Howe has sought to take the experience...

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  • Poetry News
    By Harriet Staff September 12, 2017

    Langdon Hammer writes "Inside & Underneath Words," a review of Susan Howe's Debths, for the new issue of NYRB. Hammer moves first through the classics: "My Emily Dickinson is a powerful book about...

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  • Poetry News
    By Harriet Staff August 16, 2017

    At Hyperallergic, Douglas Messerli nods to Susan Howe's latest and rumored to be her last (though we certainly hope not) collection of poetry, Debths. The collection's title is culled from...

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