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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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...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff October 11, 2017
Today at Literary Hub, Eve Ewing speaks with Rebecca Stoner about race and social injustice in the classroom. Ewing is a sociology professor at the University of Chicago and is...
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Featured BloggerBy Urayoán Noel September 8, 2016
It’s been a challenging twenty months for Puerto Rico. Against the backdrop of an ongoing economic and political crisis and the PROMESA bill’s imposition of a financial control board or...
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Featured BloggerBy Duriel E. Harris August 18, 2016
I. The I in the Center of Experiment Giving myself the assignment to conduct experiments in joy this past spring was initially a way to shift my approach to following through...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff July 27, 2015
At the Gawker Review of Books, David Drake considers hip-hop's revolutionizing of poetry, drawing in the BreakBeat Poets, who were, incidentally, the subject of an April 2015 special issue of...
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From Poetry MagazineBy Lindsay Garbutt April 20, 2015
From the cover of Adilifu Nama’s Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes The Reading List is a feature of Poetry magazine’s Editors’ Blog. This month contributors to the April...
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Featured BloggerBy Trisha Low April 17, 2015
I have never met Katy Mongeau in real life, so I'm not entirely sure she has a soul. But that's ok, because Katy is simultaneously a banshee, a witch, a...
