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No, I never thot of MEAT SCIENCE ESSAYS in relation to LUNCH POEMS. Comes closer to NAKED LUNCH. But I don’t think anyone will think it’s derivative. Too different....What the...

This year’s Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge—an annual benefit for New York City’s Poets House—nearly didn’t happen at all. The weather reports had been grim, “foretelling” (as Coleridge writes)...

  From the top left: Dorothea Lasky, Joshua Beckman, Timothy Donnelly, Terrance Hayes, Srikanth Reddy, Rachel Zucker   Matthew Zapruder and I went toe-to-toe at Oakland's Boot and Shoe Service this weekend to...

Books by poet/collagist contributors. A few weeks ago the Harriet staff took a field trip to check out Spudnik Press’s latest exhibition, In Clipping Signal, at The Annex. We were...

Student volunteers at the 2014 Irrawaddy Literary Festival. The Champak, fragrant with white blossoms growing wild on Mandalay hill, perfumes the gardens of the Mandalay Hill Resort. This is where...

In a museum, it’s challenging to represent an aesthetic movement that--though carried forward by many visual artists--began with writing. Perhaps that is why the central atrium of the Guggenheim is...

  Chicago at Dearborn and Randolph c. 1909.   Carl Sandburg’s poem “Chicago” turned 100 the other day. That is, March 2014 marked the 100th anniversary of its original publication in Poetry, along...

From left to right: Krystal Languell, Rangi McNeil, and Guillermo Felice Castro Yes it's still true, "The Poetry Project burns like red hot coal in New York's snow," as the...

Kristen Stewart is hardly the first celebrity to write and share her poetry—count James Franco, Jewel, Tupac Shakur, Jimmy Carter and Ally Sheedy among her various forebears—but she might be...

[Editor's Note: This "Open Door" piece is a response to Tyrone William's post "Amateur Poets and the Academy," posted on Harriet on October 21st, 2013.] When I was a student at...