Harriet: News & Community

Based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the Diatribe uses spoken word, poetry, and visual arts events, programs, and multimedia platforms to encourage its community to shed light on issues that affect...

Dr. Randall Horton believes in poetry’s ability to transform lives. While incarcerated, he discovered the poem “Skinhead” by Patricia Smith. He credits his experience reading that poem with opening a...

When Francisco Aragón joined the University of Notre Dame's Institute for Latino Studies (ILS) in 2003, there was no literary component. To address the gap, he established the Andrés Montoya...