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...
All Posts
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Featured BloggerBy Randall HortonOctober 1, 2018
The need for a funeral or homegoing for my [self] constructed as the [ex] has been evident for quite some time.
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Featured BloggerBy Anjuli Fatima Raza KolbSeptember 26, 2018
When last June we heard about the kids arriving in New York from the Southern border, we raced to LaGuardia to stage something visible.
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Featured BloggerBy Anjuli Fatima Raza KolbSeptember 19, 2018
I’m not one to go digging around in old dirt, but sometimes you find good bones.
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Featured BloggerBy Anjuli Fatima Raza KolbSeptember 10, 2018
In halls and moods of violent possession, we speak of languages as things we “have.”
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Featured BloggerBy Anjuli Fatima Raza KolbSeptember 4, 2018
One week last month, when it was unseasonably cold and rainy—which I loved because I was in a depression—there were suddenly mice flurrying everywhere in the courtyard.
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Featured BloggerBy Diana ArterianAugust 27, 2018
After the publication of a manuscript, one often doesn’t speak about what is lost in the process.
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Featured BloggerBy Diana ArterianAugust 20, 2018
Diana Khoi Nguyen’s first collection of poetry, Ghost Of, engages with monuments that narratives of familial tragedy erect.
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Featured BloggerBy Diana ArterianAugust 14, 2018
There is a distinct and emerging trend within the poetry world that one might traditionally call “poetry of witness,” but bears an ethics I think of as a “counter-monument poetics.”
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Featured BloggerBy Diana ArterianAugust 6, 2018
In many ways, it feels surreal to have my first book of poetry come out during this moment—a collection that narrativizes domestic abuse by a sociopathic father, as well as more subtle...
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Featured BloggerBy jayy doddJuly 23, 2018
In this age of audacity, there is a real & present war on language.
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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