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 Brian TeareJanuary 21, 2019
One of the primary ways I make ecopoetics an active practice is by drafting poems on foot in the field.
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Featured BloggerBy Brian TeareJanuary 14, 2019
Like sexual preference, textual preference occurs at the intersection of needs, desires, and the political realm of language.
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Featured BloggerBy Brian TeareJanuary 7, 2019
Duncan has long been one of “the old poets” I go toward, someone whose “faltering…unaltering wrongness… has style,” “variable truth,” and “a plentitude of powers.”
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Featured BloggerBy Brenda CoultasNovember 26, 2018
In keeping with the earlier posts of a sense of working within a community, this final post is designed, hopefully, to give a glimpse of where I am writing from.
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Featured BloggerBy Brenda CoultasNovember 14, 2018
I began a journal of my regular walks on the Bowery, once America’s most infamous street.
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Featured BloggerBy Brenda CoultasNovember 7, 2018
I need to see how I got here or to remember how I write and to have faith in my process.
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Featured BloggerBy Brenda CoultasNovember 1, 2018
Who is the I in Investigative Poetry?
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Featured BloggerBy Randall HortonOctober 23, 2018
I’m of the opinion that every poet should be in possession of a “go to” book in their toolbox, a book that keeps on giving long after the initial read.
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Featured BloggerBy Randall HortonOctober 15, 2018
Listen to the silence surrounding the silent, the other’s other—the often-invisible voice of women poeting on the carceral state.
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Featured BloggerBy Randall HortonOctober 8, 2018
I left the workshop understanding poetry could perhaps save my life, if I gave it a chance.
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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