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 Edmund BerriganMarch 25, 2019
How do you make a space for someone who's gone, but who still stands behind everything you do?
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Featured BloggerBy Edmund BerriganMarch 19, 2019
Writing poems had been easy so far, and fun. That joy has never left, even while the problems of becoming an adult human often steal away better attentions.
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Featured BloggerBy Jericho BrownMarch 18, 2019
If the presumed content of a sonnet is that it’s a love poem, how do I—a believer in love—subvert that. What is a Jericho Brown sonnet?
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Featured BloggerBy Edmund BerriganMarch 11, 2019
In poetry the music is internalized within the words, strengthening them, rather than in songwriting where the lyrics lean on the external arrangement for purpose. My own songwriting still lies...
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Featured BloggerBy Edmund BerriganMarch 4, 2019
I took a train from New York to Denver in mid-July of 1992 and landed at Naropa University.
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Featured BloggerBy Lisa WellsFebruary 25, 2019
Letters to a Young(er) Poet. Advice for the long haul, featuring: Jane Miller, Don Mee Choi, Timothy Liu, D.A. Powell, Brenda Hillman, and James Baldwin.
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Featured BloggerBy Lisa WellsFebruary 18, 2019
Pleasure, drunkenness, perilous curiosity, the will do as one pleases as opposed to what might please another (call it poetic license)—writing has always felt to me like getting away with something.
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Featured BloggerBy Lisa WellsFebruary 11, 2019
Many things have already been said on the subject of persona and poetry, but if you don’t mind, I’d like to say a few more.
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Featured BloggerBy Lisa WellsFebruary 4, 2019
It is a strange paradox of the writing life, of my writing life, that I am never realer to myself than on the page and yet never more mutable.
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Featured BloggerBy Brian TeareJanuary 29, 2019
The work of all ecopoets attests to the fact that we can’t leave it up to corporate or government powers to define “the good life” for us.
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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