Harriet: News & Community

The Guild Literary Complex (Guild Complex) was established in 1989 as a community bookstore, which soon became a nonprofit organization providing poetry programming to communities in Chicago that did not...

While living in New York City, poet, songwriter, and freelance writer Keren Taylor helped lead poetry writing workshops for girls. She noticed the workshops’ transformative impact and wanted to continue...

Candace G. Wiley and Monifa Lemons Jackson attended Cave Canem South Workshops in Columbia, South Carolina, in 2010 and 2011. Their experience as Cave Canem fellows inspired them to recreate...

826CHI opened its doors in Chicago in 2005 as part of the 826 National network, which was founded by author Dave Eggers and educator Nínive Calegari in 2002 and now...

The Care Center serves women living in Hampden County, Massachusetts who encounter barriers to finishing high school or pursuing higher education. Over the course of four decades, The Care Center...

The Poetry Foundation is pleased to announce Gwendolyn Perry Davis as its new board chair. When she assumes her new role in April 2024, she will be the organization’s first...

Join us in celebrating Poetry Month this April with free access to Poetry magazine, events, and so much more!  Free Poetry for Everyone This Poetry Month, we’re thrilled to offer a FREE...

Kundiman was founded in 2004 to facilitate the creation of new literary work, foster mentoring relationships, and address challenges facing Asian American poets and writers. The organization creates an affirming...

To foster improved communication, connection, and understanding, we are sharing the guidelines and policies that outline how we approach our work and how each area of impact represents our vision...

We have never tried to make the science in question less than the deeply complex thing it is, for in that complexity lies opportunity for understanding, which comes from attention,...