Harriet: News & Community

We’re shoring up a whole bunch of goodness this week as we dip into the online archive to see what’s new. First up, we have two from the tome—from Ron...

You may not know this but you're sitting on a treasure trove of poetry! Yes, so much so that sometimes it feels like you need a map to navigate all...

Guess who's taking over for Dorothea Lasky on Harriet's Twitter feed? C'mon, GUESS! No. Not Bacarri Rambo. It's Eric Baus! #CheckItOut.

10. "Haiku Economics" by Stephen T. Ziliak I’m an economist. Yet poetry is my first stop on the way to invention—discovery of metaphors. No matter the audience, a model is a...

Photo courtesy of Lawrence Schwartzwald Friday, December 16th at 7pm, poet, DJ, essayist, rabble-rouser and Ubuweb Roi Kenneth Goldsmith will present “My Career in Poetry or: How I Learned to Stop...

Read all about it here in a little thing we like to call "Yo-Yos with Celery." A taste: Ron: I am quite amazed by who reads my blog. And the...

Douglas Kearney--poet, performer, librettist, Cave Canem fellow, author of Fear, Some and The Black Automaton--will be reading here at the Poetry Foundation on September 23 at 7pm as part of...

As the school year begins, we're taking stock here at poetryfoundation.org, gathering together our most-read poems, articles, blog posts, and podcasts to put on display for this here Harriet show-and-tell....

On our site, anyway, the most popular poem of the summer--by FAR-- is this 1952 gem from ee cummings, "[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]." i carry your...

Nikki Giovanni will at the Harold Washington Library in Chicago next Saturday in celebration of National Poetry Month. She took a few minutes to talk about her favorite books, poems,...