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A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Archive Editor's NoteBy Michel Belyk & Alisha Isherwood September 5, 2023
I like to find what's not found at once, but lies within something of another nature, in repose, distinct. “Pleasures” by Denise Levertov E taunts bow fingers dawn lightly butchers an author botches cadence mutters in violet. “Echolalia” by Noa Micaela Fields Dear...
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Featured BloggerBy Jennifer Scappettone May 26, 2016
…And what if all of animated nature Be but organic Harps diversely framed, That tremble into thought, as o’er them sweeps Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze, At once the Soul of each, and...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff September 18, 2014
The results are in: according to an article recently published at Mic, writing expressively about traumatic, stressful, or emotional events for 15 to 20 minutes a day over the course...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff August 13, 2014
Whoa, hey there buddy! Whatever you're doing right now, stop that and read this: it's Ed Steck and Paul Cunningham's conversation about writing, disappearances, borders, Eden, holograms, and more, now...
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By Christian Bök April 10, 2011
Rachel Zucker asks us to consider whether or not we might prefer our poems to be either timeless or timelier. Historically, avant-garde poets have often called into question any reliable...
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By Christian Bök April 2, 2011
The Xenotext is my nine-year long attempt to create an example of “living poetry.” I have been striving to write a short verse about language and genetics, whereupon I use...
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By Rebecca Wolff August 12, 2009
On my way to work this morn listening to local NPR interviewing the woman who wrote this book called Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict (and maybe now its sequel)....
