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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Open DoorBy Corinne Segal March 28, 2022
When the earliest cartographers set out to draw the world—seeking a way to understand their place on Earth, and Earth’s place in the universe—they also had to find a method...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 11, 2020
At NHPR, Peter Biello speaks with JerriAnne Boggis, executive director of the Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire, about the organization's free virtual series highlighting black poets, "The Black Matter Is Life: Poetry...
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Featured BloggerBy Tyree Daye October 20, 2020
I didn’t open the pages of Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry (edited by Charles Henry Rowell) until I was pursuing my MFA at North Carolina State...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff February 17, 2020
The University of Arkansas has named Patricia Smith the newest editor of the Miller Williams Poetry Series.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff April 26, 2018
The Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were announced this weekend: Patricia Smith was awarded the prize for Poetry for her book, Incendiary Art (Triquarterly Press/Northwestern University Press, 2017)! Another poet and...
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From Poetry MagazineBy Paul Tran April 23, 2018
“Can poetry hurt us?” the sixth grade class of Lillie C. Evans School in Miami asks Patricia Smith in her poem, “Building Nicole’s Mama.”
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff February 20, 2018
Congratulations to Patricia Smith and Donika Kelly, winners of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and Kate Tufts Discovery Prize, respectively, for their recent poetry collections, Incendiary Art and Bestiary. Claremont Graduate...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff January 18, 2018
Yesterday, Claremont Graduate University announced the finalists for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and the Kate Tufts Discovery Prize. The Kingsley is awarded to a mid-career poet and comes with...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff August 8, 2017
Poets Hayan Charara and Patricia Smith met "in the rapids of an email exchange" for The Lifted Brow #34, as part of the magazine's Poets in Conversation series. Charara, whose most recent, award-winning...
