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 Rodney KoenekeApril 4, 2018
I can’t be the only one who’s looked at Duchamp’s “Fountain” and thought what beautiful things toilets are. The sinuous, vaguely anthropomorphic shape; the porcelain’s serene shine; the holes in...
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Featured BloggerBy Patricia SmithApril 3, 2018
Poets don’t usually put pictures of themselves on the front cover of their books. It comes off as gauche and needy—Here’s my picture! Here’s my name! Here’s my book! I’m...
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Featured BloggerBy Stacy SzymaszekApril 2, 2018
When an assessment test in high school suggested that I might pursue the field of psychology, I decided to write my career paper on becoming a parapsychologist. My presentation included...
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Featured BloggerBy Hayan ChararaMarch 26, 2018
Given the average lifespan, I know that some books I will simply never get to read. This is understating it—I will not come remotely close to reading most books already...
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Featured BloggerBy Hayan ChararaMarch 19, 2018
Peter Twal’s Our Earliest Tattoos, his first book, won the 2018 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize, which is awarded to poets of Arab heritage for a first or second book. A...
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Featured BloggerBy Hayan ChararaMarch 12, 2018
At the first poetry reading I attended, at a bar in Detroit, I heard a poet introduce himself by summing up his disillusionment with a life in poetry: “I was...
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Featured BloggerBy Hayan ChararaMarch 5, 2018
Nineteen years old, in 1992, at Wayne State University in Detroit, where I was a pre-med student, I stepped away from a chemistry experiment taking a long time to turn...
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Featured BloggerBy Eleni SikelianosFebruary 27, 2018
When my daughter was little, I’d ask her each morning, “What did you dream about?” Each morning she would reply, somewhat embarrassedly (a word in which there is a bear),...
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Featured BloggerBy Eleni SikelianosFebruary 19, 2018
My to-do list today says, “Cephalopod poem,” as in write one. I’ve been thinking about cephalopods because I just read Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea and the Deep Origins...
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Featured BloggerBy Eleni SikelianosFebruary 12, 2018
As a child I belonged, absolutely, to everything. To color, to sound, to warmth, to my mother and the smell of her long purple dress with small crescent yellow moons,...
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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