Harriet: News & Community
A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Foundation NewsBy Harriet Staff May 1, 2018
Today, we’re pleased to announce the winner of the 2018 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, which honors a living U.S. poet for outstanding lifetime achievement. Martín Espada is awarded the prize...
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Foundation NewsBy Harriet Staff September 6, 2017
Late last week, we found out the names of the poets who will make up the class of 2017 for this year's Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows....
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Foundation NewsBy Franny Choi & Danez Smith July 5, 2017
Hosted by the poets Danez Smith and Franny Choi, VS podcast is a new Poetry Foundation feature with new episodes every other Tuesday. You can subscribe to VS on iTunes,...
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Foundation NewsBy Poetry Foundation July 2, 2017
You might have noticed we have a new look! The redesign of poetryfoundation.org culminates a nearly two-year project that aims to bring users an engaging, immersive online reading experience while...
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Foundation NewsBy Harriet Staff May 9, 2017
Today, we are excited to announce Joy Harjo has been awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for lifetime achievement and contribution to the art of poetry. Of Harjo's poetry, Don...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff October 13, 2016
For years Bob Dylan's named circulated as a long-shot for the Nobel (100/1 odds in 2011), and today we are surprised and delighted to find the revolutionary folksinger, songwriter, poet,...
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Foundation NewsBy Harriet Staff September 1, 2016
We have some news for you today! Kaveh Akbar, Jos Charles, Angel Nafis, Alison C. Rollins, and Javier Zamora are this year's Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows....
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Foundation NewsBy Harriet Staff May 11, 2016
The Poetry Foundation, and we at Harriet, are overjoyed to announce Ed Roberson has received the 2016 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for outstanding lifetime achievement in the art of...
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Foundation NewsBy Harriet Staff May 6, 2015
Stop the poetry presses! We at Harriet are thrilled to announce that the 2015 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize goes to Alice Notley! The prize will be presented on June 8th...
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Foundation NewsBy Michael Slosek April 2, 2015
Today we released the first episode of PoetryNow, a new 5 minute podcast and radio broadcast created in partnership with the Poetry Foundation and WFMT in Chicago, featuring poets reading...
