Blog Profile / Harriet: The Blog
| URL : | http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Writing / Poetry | |
| Posts on Regator: | 6096 | |
| Posts / Week: | 29.7 | |
| Archived Since: | June 16, 2009 | |
Blog Post Archive
David Wojnarowicz Journals Are Up Online, Thanks to Fales Special Collections
David Wojnarowicz scholars and fans rejoice: The artist’s journals–archived at NYU’s Fales Library & Special Collections–have just been digitized! Check out one of the tweeted photos of the many; and the full list of materials is here available to VIEW. We spied this poem, “Poem to Brian Sleeping”: GalleristNY writes that “[The journals] follow Wojnarowicz [...]
Last Chance to Submit Yourself to the Wonder Book Prize. . .
We done told ya and told ya, but will wonders never: Today is the last day to submit to the first-annual Wonder book prize, judged by Macgregor Card: Please send in your submission tonight by Midnight (EST). We are accepting full-length manuscripts of any genre. The author of the selected manuscript will receive a $300 [...]
David Bartone Wins Ahsahta’s Sawtooth Poetry Prize
Ahsahta Press announced the winner of the annual Sawtooth Poetry Prize contest: David Bartone. Bartone, a native of Amherst, Massachusetts, won for his manuscript Practice on Mountains, which will be published next year by Ahsahta. In addition to publication of his manuscript, Bartone wins $1,500. His manuscript was selected by this year’s judge, Dan Beachy-Quick. [...]
Hey Clay!
Hey Bay Area! Today is “Say Hey to Clay Day” at Small Press Distribution. If you’re local, stop by SPD (1341 Seventh Street in Berkeley) any time from 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM to say good-bye to Clay Banes. If you haven’t met Clay, you probably know him from his weekly “SPD RECOMMENDS” e-newsletters that [...]
Sarah Mangold: ‘Writing, Moving, Practicing’
Things were astounding enough/the passenger ferry/the steeple/enough to make you die of astonishment —Sarah Mangold, from “I meant to be Transparent” To be transparent, if it is a material, is to let light pass through so objects behind are made visible. To be transparent is also to transmit heat without altering bodies. To be transparent [...]
Jill Magi Has Urge to Hush Anxieties in Rodrigo Toscano’s Deck of Deeds
Poet and artist Jill Magi writes about Rodrigo Toscano’s latest title, Deck of Deeds (Counterpath 2012), at her blog, noting that he “dials in to a wide range of frequencies we use to explain ourselves. It seems Rodrigo has been paying attention and listening for years, gathering the gestures of these anxieties.” More about the [...]
Welcome to Song Cave
Oh yes, hi, is this thing on? Yes, hello, we’re coming to you live from Song Cave: that’s S-O-N-G-C-A-V-E. Song Cave, a small press publisher based in Northampton, Massachusetts, is edited by Ben Estes and Alan Felsenthal. In addition to chapbooks by poets and writers among the likes of Lisa Jarnot, Rod Smith, Dana Ward, [...]
Barry Schwabsky Hits the Ground Running at Hyperallergic
Hyperallergians, fear not! Barry Schwabsky has reigned-in the poetry for this weekend’s installment of the epic arts and culture newsletter. Check this: Ezra Pound said poetry was news that stays news. I thought that in gathering some notes on poetry I’ve read this year I’d bring a bit of news and only after doing so [...]
Jane Freilicher: Painter Among Poets
If you weren’t able to make it out to Chicago this past weekend for our “Sitting Between the Sea and the Buildings” symposium, which celebrated Joan Mitchell’s relationship to poets and poetry, our friends at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery are hosting an exhibition that looks at Jane Freilicher, another painter-friend to the New York [...]
The Ingenious Gentleman and Poet Federico Garcia Lorca Ascends to Hell Now in English
The life, death, (and after-life?) of Federico Garcia Lorca continues fascinate readers. Jacket Copy reports that Carlos Rojas’s novel The Ingenious Gentleman and Poet Federico Garcia Lorca Ascends to Hell, translated by Edith Grossman, is now available for the first time in English. The book was original published shortly after Spain’s return to democracy, following [...]
Langston Ward Wins 2013 Poetry Out Loud Finals
Last week, after approximately nine months of competition and more than 375,000 competitors, Langston Ward of Spokane, Washington took top honors as the 2013 Poetry Out Loud National Champion. Ward wowed the judges—and the crowd—with recitations of “The Gift” by Li-Young Lee, “A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown” by Walt Whitman, [...]
New Translations of Experimental Yiddish Poet Celia Dropkin Published at Jacket2
Now this is news: A decade of translating work from Samuel Solomon, Jennifer Kronovet, and Faith Jones has led to the publication of new translations of experimental Yiddish poet Celia Dropkin (1887-1956) at Jacket2, with an amazing note from Jerome Rothenberg on the poet: Among the more experimental Yiddish poets in early twentieth-century New York, [...]
From the Official Department of Diary Rescue: W. H. Auden’s ‘Lost’ 1939 Journal Discovered!
The Independent reports that one of the most exceptional diaries kept by W.H. Auden has at long-last been discovered! Auden began the journal in August of 1939 and continued writing in it until November of that very same year. According to Edward Mendelson, an English professor at Columbia University who is also the literary executor [...]
At LARB: Stephanos Papadopoulos on Poetry & Greece
Stephanos Papadopoulos historicizes poetry and Greece for the Los Angeles Review of Books: “Greeks have always held onto their poets with particular tenacity and respect. No one knows where poetry will reside within this age of technology and attention deficit, but with Greece bankrupt and begging for alms, for once, it needs to look backward.” [...]
Tomorrow in London & Now to Read: Keston Sutherland’s The Odes to TL61P
Hey UKers or those of you about to head across the pond just for this: The launch of Keston Sutherland’s new book, The Odes to TL61P, is tomorrow night at Cafe Oto in Dalston, London. Wish we could be there. Here’s EVENT INFO from Enitharmon Press–you can buy your ticket in advance and buy the [...]
Bay Area Poetry Marathon Announces 2013 Guest Curators
… It’s…. …drumroll please… Ryan Funk and Tom Comitta! Yes, up-and-coming poets Ryan Funk and Tom Comitta will guest-curate the Bay Area Poetry Marathon this summer. Based in San Francisco, the Bay Area Poetry Marathon celebrates innovative poetries through a series of readings that take place every summer. The 2013 Bay Area Poetry Marathon will [...]
On Susan Howe, Doubles, Telepathy
The psychics among you might like this piece at The Actuary by Beth Towle–on Susan Howe, “finding doubles,” and telepathy’s interactions with poetry: Communication, then, is reading traces. And reading traces is to make copies. And to make copies is to attempt to speak for ourselves. Perhaps then the mode of working through archival or [...]
All for the Nookie?
In tech-related poetry news, Microsoft appears to be offering to purchase the digital assets of Nook Media LLC: that’s the tablet-size e-book reader championed by Barnes & Noble. If you’ve been reading le poems via Nook, according to TechCrunch: Microsoft is offering to pay $1 billion to buy the digital assets of Nook Media LLC, [...]
Writing ‘About’ (Part II)
Part II I was introduced to the term “Tibetan refugee” at a young age, as the poet Tenzin Tsundue was. I understood the word to signal a feature of a sentient being, so I thought my classmates were Indian “refugees.” The word “refugee,” announced and used in English, signified fixed images of despair, displacement, and [...]
LA Times Profiles Ken Baumann on the Writing + Publishing + Hollywood Life
LA Times’ Carolyn Kellogg profiles Ken Baumann in this week’s Jacket Copy. Baumann is star of The Secret Life of the American Teenager (an ABC Family sit-com), the publisher of Sator Press (an avant-garde small press that he founded in 2010), and the author of Solip (a novel that will be published by Tyrant Books [...]