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 Philip JenksApril 18, 2018
Turn one way and it’s all chatter. The chatter is clear, prosaic. Institutions treasure this particular form of language. Monikered as transparency, it reveals less than it conceals. This is the...
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Featured BloggerBy Yanara FriedlandApril 17, 2018
The men that have touched my life often return in ghostly, unannounced measures. They appear after long absences with a note between their beaks. They come to me involuntarily in...
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Featured BloggerBy Hai-Dang PhanApril 16, 2018
My lover asks for a bedtime poem, and, as with anything she requests when we’re in bed, I’m more than willing to comply. This irregular ritual of ours offers an...
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Featured BloggerBy Matthew YeagerApril 13, 2018
I mean over the course of this short essay to take a summary look at a particular length of poem, which for lack of a better word, we might call...
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Featured BloggerBy Harmony HolidayApril 12, 2018
If I could figure out why we starved ourselves into a mutually helpless tenderness, the stars would well up and sparkle with the resolve of better demons. If I could...
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Featured BloggerBy Robert FernandezApril 11, 2018
Poetry is to life as a lens is to light, or as leaven is to flour; as a lens is to light, so the poet is to life—a gathering and...
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Featured BloggerBy Amanda AckermanApril 10, 2018
Hello: dear reader, gentle reader. Are we gentle spirits?
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Featured BloggerBy Dawn Lundy MartinApril 9, 2018
The first poem I wrote that let me know that I might be a poet took up the story of Yusef Hawkins, the black teenager who was murdered by a...
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Featured BloggerBy Hoa NguyenApril 6, 2018
Previousness insists. My attraction to the palimpsest as a strategy of poetics lies in my interest to address diasporic conditions as states of superimposition.
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Featured BloggerBy Andrew JoronApril 5, 2018
Water assumes the shape of its container. Water that overspills its container immediately assumes the shape of the universe. Meaning also assumes the shape of its (semiotic) container. But to fulfill...
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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