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Poetry News Round Up
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Krista Franklin, avery r. young, and Aricka Foreman on communicating with the dead.
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In Taos, the family of Coral Dawn Bernal honors her legacy with a new arts and literature center.
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Featured Blog Posts
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Featured BloggerBy Shayla Lawz July 25, 2022Art exists in the space of transformation. It lives in our minds and bodies intimately, ready to be called upon in our time of need: whether when we recall...
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Featured BloggerBy Achy Obejas July 11, 2022
When my bilingual poetry collection, Boomerang/Bumerán, was published last year, I felt a tremendous sense of gratification at seeing one of its central elements—the use of non-gendered language, particularly in Spanish—recognized, and...
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Featured BloggerBy Kim Moore July 5, 2022
In the pub after a reading, a man comes up to me to tell me how men of his generation (he seems to be in his late twenties/early thirties but...
From Open Door
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Open DoorBy Corinne Segal March 28, 2022
When the earliest cartographers set out to draw the world—seeking a way to understand their place on Earth, and Earth’s place in the universe—they also had to find a method...
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Open DoorBy Layla Benitez-James December 22, 2021
In the seven years since I graduated from the University of Houston’s creative writing program, I’ve joked that I needed to deprogram with translation before I could write my own...
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About Harriet Books
Named after Harriet Monroe, the founding editor of Poetry Magazine, Harriet Books centers the work of poets and serves as a portal to the latest poetry-related news.
Meet the Harriet Books Writers
Harriet Books features reviews by a rotating team of book reviewers, all of them poets. They bring a range of perspectives to poetry, criticism, and the art of book reviewing. Our reviewers seek to highlight works by people from underrepresented and marginalized backgrounds, books published by small and independent presses, and poetry in translation.
Meet the Book Reviewers
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Heather Green is the author of the collection No Other Rome (Akron Poetry Series, 2021), and the translator of Tristan Tzara's Noontimes Won (Octopus Books, 2018) and Guide to the Heart Rail (Goodmorning Menagerie, 2017). Her poetry has...
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Diego Báez is a writer, educator, and abolitionist. He is the recipient of fellowships from CantoMundo, the Surge Institute, and the Poetry Foundation's Incubator for Community-Engaged Poets. He serves as a Director...
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Layla Benitez-James is the author of God Suspected My Heart Was a Geode but He Had to Make Sure (Jai-Alai Books, 2017), selected by Major Jackson for Cave Canem’s 2017 Toi Derricotte &...
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Meet the Featured Bloggers
Every quarter, Harriet Books invites several poets as featured bloggers to write on a theme related to contemporary poetry and poetics.
Featured Bloggers
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Shayla Lawz is a writer and interdisciplinary artist from Jersey City. She holds a BA in English from Rutgers University and an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University. Her debut poetry...
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Poet, novelist, journalist, translator, and teacher Achy Obejas was born in Havana, Cuba. When she was six years old, she and her family immigrated to the United States during the...
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