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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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff July 13, 2018
The Guardian's Dalya Alberge reports on a trove of letters written by William Butler Yeats long missing, now recovered at the Princeton University Library. "A collection of unpublished letters written by WB Yeats...
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Featured BloggerBy Hai-Dang Phan April 16, 2018
My lover asks for a bedtime poem, and, as with anything she requests when we’re in bed, I’m more than willing to comply. This irregular ritual of ours offers an...
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From Poetry MagazineBy Molly Peacock February 8, 2016
Each month we feature a guest post from a contributor to Poetry’s current issue. Molly Peacock’s poem “The Nurse Tree” appears in the February 2016 issue. Previous posts in this series can...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff July 21, 2015
In other exhumation news... Turns out the remains of W.B. Yeats may not (wholly?) be those interred in the shadow of Ben Bulben in Co Sligo. The Guardian reports on...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff October 24, 2014
The New York Times reports that a gaggle of events are sheduled, uh, we mean, scheduled, for this weekend in celebration of the centenary of Dylan Thomas's birth. Yup! 100...
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From Poetry MagazineBy Frances Leviston October 6, 2014
[Note: Each month we feature a guest post from a contributor to Poetry’s current issue. Frances Leviston’s “Trimmings” appears in the October 2014 issue. Previous posts in this series can...
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Featured BloggerBy George Quasha April 17, 2014
"America a Prophecy" title page (1793) For the eye altering alters all William Blake, “The Mental Traveler” Who reads Blake? The easy answer is almost everyone who reads poetry—that is, has read...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff August 16, 2013
New at the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard University's Vocarium, Christina Davis shares the details of her discovery of a rare, archival recording of Mary Manning Howe (mother of poets,...
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Featured BloggerBy Anthony Madrid April 3, 2013
I was memorizing Yeats’s “Easter 1916,” a poem that has a powerful spell on me, despite my not giving a fook about Yeats or Ireland. There is a part in...
