Harriet: News & Community

Dear Readers, In April 2021 we relaunched Harriet and began featuring a weekly poetry news roundup curated by Amira Hanafi for the Poetry Foundation. For the latest poetry-related news from around...

Dear Readers, Poetry News will be on hiatus as we prepare for the Spring 2021 launch of Harriet Books, a books-centered website featuring original, short reviews of new and forthcoming poetry...

The New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research and Culture may be temporarily closed, but librarians have been busy digitizing and curating several new research guides.

At Salon, Mary Elizabeth Williams writes about the significance of Joe Biden's stutter, and about how, as a child, he would memorize poetry to help him manage his stutter.

At Chicago Review of Books, Mandana Chaffa reviews five poetry collections from 2020 that she finds worth revisiting.

Eunsong Kim's new essay in Michigan Quarterly Review dissects and reflects on Susan Howe's My Emily Dickinson, asking central questions "about white feminist poetry and its deployment of chattel slavery...

Poet Koon Woon talks with David Fewster of Rain Taxi about describing himself as a "paper-son poet."

At San José Spotlight, Madelyn Reese tells readers about Santa Clara County's first-ever search for a youth poet laureate. 

We are saddened to learn of the recent passing of Jean Valentine, an influential and beloved poet and educator who published fourteen poetry collections and won numerous awards. 

At Comic Book Resources, Theo Kogod suggests five DC comics that readers of poetry might enjoy, starting with Tom King's Batman.