Harriet: News & Community

In keeping with our annual tradition, Poetry Foundation staff share a book (or two) that brought them joy or comfort or pleasure this year. *** Holly Amos, Associate Editor American Inmate by Justin Rovillos MonsonRecently,...

Ed Roberson is a master poet. Let’s get that out of the way up front. In his early 80s, he’s 13 books in, and he continues to go strong; if...

CityLit Project’s executive director, Carla Du Pree, was 13 years old before she discovered the work of significant Black poets, such as Nikki Giovanni, Lucille Clifton, and Sonia Sanchez. Encountering...

The Poetry Foundation is proud to announce the 26 nonprofit organizations that received $875,000 in funding in our fall 2023 grant cycle. Selected from 151 grant applications, this impressive roster...

About five or six months ago, I sought a book suggestion from my father. He handed me a Vietnamese edition of Pearl S. Buck’s Trang, which had a distinctive red cover. The...

916 Ink envisions a Sacramento region where every child and teen can access culturally relevant creative writing programs. To this end, 916 Ink staff and volunteers facilitate programs for students...

In February of 1997, I exchanged letters with the poet and scholar Agha Shahid Ali. He was my teacher and “supervisor,” at the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College,...

Editor’s Note: This is the second installment in a three-part essay. Read Part I here. I want to note the intriguing similarity between the Vietnamese word “nhà thơ” for poet and “nhà thờ”...

Sundress Publications is led by more than 60 dedicated volunteers who are guided by the belief in the transformative nature of writing. The nonprofit publisher strives to help writers find...

In response to discussions around a recent editorial decision.  We at the Poetry Foundation are saddened and deeply disturbed by the humanitarian crisis and ongoing violence in Palestine and Israel. While...