Harriet: News & Community
A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Featured BloggerBy Safia Elhillo October 9, 2023
I was in Sudan this past February, on a boat in Sabaloga, cutting through the Nile and the early morning mist, blissfully unaware of the war that would take so...
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Featured BloggerBy Tyree Daye October 6, 2020
I learned to call it a redbird before a cardinal. My mother pointed and said, “look, there’s a redbird,” and my little face turned to the sky. Where I’m from,...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff May 22, 2020
Cave Canem has announced the appointment of Ann Marie Lonsdale as the organization's fourth Executive Director.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff March 27, 2018
Kyla Marshell interviews Khadijah Queen for the weekly interview series at PEN America, "The Pen Ten." "Is there such a thing as 'the writer’s identity?'" asks Marshell to start. Queen responds: I...
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Featured BloggerBy Tyehimba Jess November 30, 2016
Recently, I called upon the mild mannered, ferociously enthusiastic cofounder of Cave Canem, Cornelius Eady. I was curious about his perspective on the last two decades of CC. He shared...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff November 17, 2016
Breaking news! The 2016 National Book Award in Poetry has gone to Daniel Borzutzky for The Performance of Becoming Human (Brooklyn Arts Press), while the Literarian Award, for “outstanding service...
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Featured BloggerBy Tyehimba Jess November 4, 2016
This year marks the twentieth anniversary of Cave Canem, the organization that calls itself "a home for black poetry," the organization that, I would argue, has changed the face of...
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Featured BloggerBy Urayoán Noel September 30, 2016
Every once in a while I’ll hear a Latinx poet on social media describe getting published in Poetry as a dream come true. Invariably I’ll roll my inner eye. Sure,...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 8, 2014
Black poets are speaking out! In response to the killing of unarmed African-American men like 18- year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri earlier this year, poets from the esteemed African-American...
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Featured BloggerBy Patricia Spears Jones September 22, 2014
Last week I went to a celebration for the life of Maya Angelou. On Friday, September 19, I went to a birthday celebration for Sonia Sanchez. My mother,...
