Featured Bloggers
Every month, Harriet Books invites a poet to contribute two posts as the Featured Blogger of the month, in which they reflect on issues relating to contemporary poetry and poetics.
Featured Bloggers
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Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley was born to two True Temper wheelbarrow factory workers and belongs to the Onondaga Nation of Indigenous Americans in New York. He is the Affrilachian author of...
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Alice Notley has become one of America’s greatest living poets. She has long written in narrative and epic and genre-bending modes to discover new ways to explore the nature of...
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Asiya Wadud is the author of No Knowledge Is Complete Until It Passes Through My Body (Nightboat Books, 2021), SYNCOPE (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2019), and Crosslight for Youngbird (Nightboat Books, 2018). She is the...
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Taylor Johnson is from Washington, DC. They are the author of Inheritance (Alice James Books, 2020), and their work appears in The Paris Review, The Baffler, Scalawag, and elsewhere. Johnson...
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Featured BloggerBy Benjamín Naka-Hasebe KingsleyApril 14, 2021
An eighteen-gauge syringe teeters like a spent cigarette on the edge of a kitchen plate. The pinky-length needle is gently curved with reuse, sticky now with amber, the dark honey...
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Featured BloggerBy Alice NotleyMarch 23, 2021
This book forthcoming, my first art book, has happened so quickly, as “written” and as published, that I can scarcely describe it. As I say in my intro, I bought...
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Featured BloggerBy Bhanu KapilApril 12, 2012
Feng Sun Chen's PAUL THEK came from Amazon/Lulu three days ago, but I have not opened it and can't imagine opening it. Eventually, I will. Perhaps I will never cut...
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Featured BloggerBy Kathleen RooneyApril 12, 2012
In his book Maps of the Imagination: Writer as Cartographer, Peter Turchi discusses the biography of the animator and cartoonist Chuck Jones, creator of the Looney Tunes characters Wile E....
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Featured BloggerBy Alan GilbertApril 11, 2012
I first heard Daniel Tiffany’s name when the poet Peter Gizzi raved about his book Toy Medium: Materialism and Modern Lyric, a beautifully written scholarly study of lyric poetry (among...
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Featured BloggerBy Thom DonovanApril 11, 2012
Brian Ang and Ana Božičević are up next in a series of posts for National Poetry Month regarding how writing and art practices have changed in response to the occupations. You...
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Featured BloggerBy Rodrigo ToscanoApril 11, 2012
“See you at the recycle bins.” * “By the dumpsters—see you there.” * “Hey, I was at the bins—where the hell were you?” * “Dumpsters? Um, I totally prefer bins.” * “Cop in a box?” * “‘Bins’—are what— froofed up ‘dumpsters?’” * “A booth—where a cop—might...
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Featured BloggerBy Stephanie BurtApril 11, 2012
Thursday I flew into, and yesterday I flew out of, the Washington, D.C. transit hub formerly known as Washington National Airport, now designated by act of Congress as Ronald Reagan...
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Featured BloggerBy Edwin TorresApril 11, 2012
the exercise of awareness starts with these fingers hovering over the laptop, pinky floatong helplessly on eoither hand…stopping there for a second to correct the mistake of a speeding digit…why...
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Featured BloggerBy Julie CarrApril 10, 2012
“If it is one of those blank periods when my mind shuts me out then I feel as if I don’t exist. “Writing was a way of translating the world and...
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Featured BloggerBy Sina QueyrasApril 10, 2012
I was looking through an old issue of the excellent Capilano Review out of Vancouver recently and stumbled upon a series of ruined sonnets from Stephen Collis, a poet I...
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Featured BloggerBy Martin EarlApril 10, 2012
True or false: 1. Major daily newspapers no longer publish poetry. 2. Poems are not about anything. 3. Nobel laureates in literature politely remove themselves from the public forum immediately after nomination. 4. Poetry...
Previous Bloggers
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Alec Finlay is an artist and poet whose work crosses over a range of media and forms. Finlay was awarded the 2020 Cholmondeley award for services to poetry.
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Michael Torres was born and raised in Pomona, California, where he spent his adolescence as a graffiti artist. His debut collection of poems, An Incomplete List of Names (Beacon Press,...
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Tyree Daye is a poet from Youngsville, North Carolina, and a Teaching Assistant Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is the author of two poetry collections River Hymns, the 2017 APR/Honickman...
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Kimberly Alidio is the author of why letter ellipses (selva oscura, 2020); : once teeth bones coral : (Belladonna*, 2020); a cell of falls (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2019);...
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