Harriet: News & Community
A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Open DoorBy Harmony Holiday December 10, 2018
My favorite black radical, the artist formerly known as LeRoi Jones, I’d assumed until recently was born with a special capacity for revolutionary consciousness, not made that way. And I was...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff August 23, 2017
Real good read at the CUNY GC Center for Humanities' blog: poet and editor Iris Cushing writes about her time...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff March 14, 2017
The Lammy finalists are in! And this year Lambda Literary features an impressive list of books in the Lesbian Poetry, Gay Poetry, and Transgender Poetry categories. A little about the...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff March 2, 2017
At the LAMBDA site, Ari Banias's debut poetry collection Anybody meets Christopher Soto's inquisitive gaze. While reading Anybody, Soto, the author of "Sad Girl Poems" and the founder of Nepantla:...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff February 23, 2017
There will be no joy in missing out on this one! Over at Lambda Literary, Michael Valinsky talks to Ana Božičević about her latest collection of verses, The Joy of...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff November 10, 2016
Tommy Pico's IRL (Birds, LLC) is reviewed by Christopher Soto at Lambda Literary. "While reading IRL, I was trying to think about who Tommy Pico sounds like. The answer is...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff June 20, 2016
Michelle Cliff, Jamaican-American author and longtime partner of Adrienne Rich, died last week in Santa Cruz at the age of 69. "[H]er entire creative life was a quest to give...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff June 7, 2016
Speaking of Lambda Literary: The 28th Annual Lambda Literary Awards ceremony was held last night at NYU's Skirball Center, bringing together "over 500 attendees, sponsors, and celebrities to celebrate excellence...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff June 7, 2016
That's right, Lambda Literary has honored Lisa C. Moore, founder and editor of RedBone Press, with their Publishing Professional Award for 2016. RedBone has been publishing innovative work by writers...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff May 25, 2016
We'd be remiss not to have made mention of Christopher Bram's wonderful conversation with Philip Clark, which centers on the poetry of the late Donald Britton. In the Empire of...
