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A literary blog about poetry and related news
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 15, 2020
Kevin Young's African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song (Library of America) is "much more diasporic than 'African American' might seem to suggest," says Amber Rose Johnson in an interview with...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 15, 2020
At Local Spins, Nick Moran introduces readers to Grand Rapids's newest poet laureate, Ericka “Kyd Kane” Thompson, who succeeds Marcel “Fable the Poet” Price, and is the first black woman and first openly queer...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 14, 2020
At The Rumpus, in keeping with yearly tradition, Barbara Berman has reviewed "four new collections of poetry and books on poetics that would be perfect for any reader on your holiday shopping...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 14, 2020
At the Southern Times ["The Newspaper for Southern Africa"], Chukwuebuka Ibeh congratulates Zambian poet Cheswayo Mphanza on winning the Boston Review’s 2020 Poetry Contest for his poems “Notes Towards a Biography of Henry Tayali” and...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 14, 2020
At The Guardian, Alison Flood reports that Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning's 1839 letter to her cousin, written while in isolation due to ulcerative tuberculosis, will go to auction at Bonhams on December 17.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 14, 2020
At Pitchfork, Jenn Pelly talks to Fiona Apple about her latest album, Fetch the Bolt Cutters.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 11, 2020
The Swedish Academy published Louise Glück's Nobel Prize acceptance speech this week.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 11, 2020
Paris Review shares a lovely piece about Sappho, excerpted from An Inventory of Losses (New Directions), a collection of prose pieces that blur the line between fiction and essay, by the German...
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 11, 2020
In keeping with our yearly tradition, some members of the Poetry Foundation's staff share their favorite poetry (or poetry-related) books of 2020.
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Poetry NewsBy Harriet Staff December 11, 2020
At NHPR, Peter Biello speaks with JerriAnne Boggis, executive director of the Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire, about the organization's free virtual series highlighting black poets, "The Black Matter Is Life: Poetry...
