Harriet: News & Community

The Poetry Foundation is pleased to announce Gwendolyn Perry Davis as its new board chair. When she assumes her new role in April 2024, she will be the organization’s first...

Join us in celebrating Poetry Month this April with free access to Poetry magazine, events, and so much more!  Free Poetry for Everyone This Poetry Month, we’re thrilled to offer a FREE...

Kundiman was founded in 2004 to facilitate the creation of new literary work, foster mentoring relationships, and address challenges facing Asian American poets and writers. The organization creates an affirming...

To foster improved communication, connection, and understanding, we are sharing the guidelines and policies that outline how we approach our work and how each area of impact represents our vision...

We have never tried to make the science in question less than the deeply complex thing it is, for in that complexity lies opportunity for understanding, which comes from attention,...

Mission: Through the literary and performing arts, Southern Word offers creative solutions for youth to build literacy and presentation skills, reconnect to their education and lives, and act as leaders in...

Bring more poetry to your classroom! The Poetry Foundation is holding its ninth annual Summer Poetry Teachers Institute in Chicago at DePaul University, July 22-26, 2024. This free, four-and-a-half-day event will include...

The Chicago Poetry Center (CPC) was founded in response to literary censorship trials in Chicago in the 1950s. The trials led local writers and editors to organize and begin building...

Puha Hubiya (PHO) addresses the under-representation and isolation of Indigenous authors in the literary landscape. PHO increases access to creative arts programs in rural Indigenous areas; mentors fledgling writers, artists, and...

Being asked to serve as February’s Poem of the Day guest editor was an honor. It also proved to be an intense personal journey. I was reminded of poets and...