Harriet: News & Community
A literary blog about poetry and related news
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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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Featured BloggerBy Evie Shockley June 6, 2017
“It was not natural. And she was the first.” With these words, June Jordan opens her incisive and deeply moving essay on poet Phillis Wheatley, whose emergence from the hold...
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Featured BloggerBy Quraysh Ali Lansana June 1, 2017
This is the first of a series of posts honoring Gwendolyn Brooks during the month of her 100th birthday. I am honored to have curated the outstanding collection of poets...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff March 14, 2017
IndyStar reports that Indianapolis poet Mari Evans has died at the age of 93. Evans was an influential figure throughout the state of Indiana, ever since the Black Arts Movement...
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Featured BloggerBy Amy King August 25, 2015
“When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.” —Audre Lorde While...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff August 21, 2015
This week, CBC Books announced that Adam Sol, Tracy K. Smith, and Alice Oswald have been named the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize judges. The prize, which "offers two awards of...
