Harriet: News & Community
A literary blog about poetry and related news
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From Poetry MagazineBy Suzi F. Garcia August 21, 2023
I now realize that growth cannot happen overnight, nor should it. It must be built with the goal of sustainability. As anyone in nonprofit work can tell you, burnout plagues...
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From Poetry MagazineBy Suzi F. Garcia September 9, 2021
I didn’t learn to read until third grade, but I had been learning poetry my whole life.
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From Poetry MagazineBy Holly Amos March 26, 2020
Contributors to the March 2020 issue share some recommendations.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff March 17, 2017
Letras Latinas and CantoMundo are two of 22 organizations that make up the Poetry Coalition, and they're in the midst of a new series called “Because We Come from Everything:...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff September 16, 2016
Suzi F. Garcia's essay about teaching Claudia Rankine's Citizen to non-poetry students highlights the need for complex discussion about race in academia, as well as students's and teachers's responses. I often...
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Featured BloggerBy Amy King August 18, 2015
This past summer, I was asked to talk about my literary activism as part of an acceptance speech for an award I was receiving. This request threw my current actions...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff August 12, 2015
Consider the Dakota 38 while reading the work of Layli Long Soldier in the premiere issue of Mud City, "an online literary journal promoting the ideals and vision of the...
