Harriet: News & Community
A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Archive Editor's NoteBy Robert Eric Shoemaker January 25, 2023
Our desire is to maintain Harriet Monroe’s open door in the truest spirit of belonging.
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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 Erica Lewis July 12, 2017
mary wants to be a superwoman (Third Man Books, 2017), the second book in the box set trilogy, retraces the history of the women in my mother’s family, starting with the Trail...
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Featured BloggerBy Jericho Brown April 24, 2015
[A version of this talk was given at AWP in Minneapolis on April 10th, 2015 as part of the Neglected American Masters panel with James Allen Hall, Yona Harvey, and...
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Featured BloggerBy LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs December 9, 2013
Holding It Down Ensemble, Harlem Stage, 2012. Photo credit: Vijay Iyer It was shortly after the poet Sabah As-Sabah passed. I did not know the man personally but for those...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff July 22, 2013
In conjunction with the “AfriCOBRA in Chicago: Philosophy” exhibit at the Logan Center for the Arts at the University of Chicago, South Side Projections will present two more nights of...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff July 19, 2013
According to BBC News, David Raikes, a WWII-pilot and aspiring poet, has finally been laid to rest. He and members of 18 Squadron went missing after their plane was shot...
