Harriet: News & Community
A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Featured BloggerBy Alina Stefanescu December 12, 2022
Then, again, one day, the one who was once young will learn that somewhere at the other end of this very earth the older one has died. At first she...
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Open DoorBy David Woo December 20, 2021
If finding someone literal-minded is an occasion to celebrate the complexity of one’s own mind, it is also an accusation that can summon the most extreme aspects of consciousness.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff January 30, 2019
At Literary Hub, Gabrielle Bellot explores W.B. Yeats's later years.
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Open DoorBy David Trinidad July 30, 2018
On December 10, 1962, Sylvia Plath moved from Court Green, her home in Devon, England, to a flat at 23 Fitzroy Road in London.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 14, 2016
Cross-cultural narratives abound in Simon Starling's At Twilight (After W. B. Yeats’ Noh Reincarnation) at Japan Society. An investigation into the Irish poet's foray into [Japanese] Noh Theater, Starling's show...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff October 17, 2016
Left to right: Simon Starling, “At Twilight / Mask of W.B. Yeats,” “At Twilight / Mask of Nancy Cunard,” and “At Twilight / Mask of Ezra Pound (After Henri...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff August 11, 2015
When Avies Platt attended a meeting of the Sex Education Society (a group lead by "controversial sexologist" Norman Haire) she became captivated by "tall, somewhat gaunt, aristocratic, very dignified" W.B....
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff August 4, 2015
Frieze Magazine does not disappoint in this monograph of the Tokyo avant-garde art group known as the "Mavoists." Andrew Maerkle provides a thorough background of the movement, started in 1923,...
