Harriet: News & Community
A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Archive Editor's NoteBy Rick Kogan February 5, 2024
Being asked to serve as February’s Poem of the Day guest editor was an honor. It also proved to be an intense personal journey. I was reminded of poets and...
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Featured BloggerBy Cody-Rose Clevidence November 22, 2021
We live in a communal experiment called the world. We were born into architectures of thought and art and culture that have been being built for millennia, shaped by all...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff November 9, 2020
Tess Taylor recommends poems about elections and democracy for All Things Considered, including a 1949 sonnet by Gwendolyn Brooks, called "First Fight. Then Fiddle."
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff August 14, 2020
Gwendolyn Brooks's only solo album, Gwendolyn Brooks Reading Her Poetry (Caedmon Records, 1968), is the topic at hand in a new blog post from Brandon Wilner. Caedmon, an entirely women-run operation...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff August 20, 2019
"[W]e now have [Angela] Jackson’s slender biography of her friend and mentor: A Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun: The Life and Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks," writes Harris Feinsod in a new...
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Featured BloggerBy Lillian-Yvonne Bertram April 4, 2019
The Forever Gwen Brooks project grew out of love for and interest in Brooks’s poems, especially RIOT!, because it marks a definitive shift in her publishing priorities.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff June 7, 2018
Margot McMahon is the sculptor behind a new public artwork in Gwendolyn Brooks Park, which pays homage to the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who would have been 101 years old today....
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Featured BloggerBy Duriel E. Harris April 26, 2018
For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of that language by which we speak it....
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Featured BloggerBy 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 NewsBy Harriet Staff March 6, 2018
For the New Yorker's "Culture Desk," Doreen St. Félix writes about Chicago poets Eve L. Ewing and Nate Marshall's recent participation in the shadow-box play, No Blue Memories: The Life of...
