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 David LauApril 5, 2017
1 Boots Riley Under signs of the ruthless gangsterism of American politics, we made it to 2017, the centennial of the Russian Revolution. 1917, a land of lost left-wing dinosaurs, is...
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Featured BloggerBy Mia YouApril 4, 2017
Gucci S/S 2017 Ready-to-Wear show in Milan. Is poetry the hot new soundtrack for fashion? Earlier this year, during New York Fashion Week, designer Tracy Reese asked four poets–Aja Monet,...
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Featured BloggerBy David TrinidadApril 3, 2017
1 Last November, on election day, on a flight from New York to Chicago, I reread William Carlos Williams’s Spring and All. I planned to assign it for a graduate poetics...
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Featured BloggerBy Paolo JavierMarch 30, 2017
Photo Credit: J. Kirby The next couple of posts will be devoted to the work of former Parliamantery Poet Laureate of Canada Fred Wah, who lives in the unceded Coastal...
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Featured BloggerBy Paolo JavierMarch 21, 2017
From: Paolo Javier To: Renee Saklikar Sent: Thursday, February 2, 2017 1:18:55 PM Subject: hello Hello Renee David Buuck passed along your contact info. I'd initially attempted to reach you via your website (canadaproject), but...
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Featured BloggerBy Paolo JavierMarch 15, 2017
Nov 9 Work all the time—manic depression but learn to use yourself: when up, drive in—when down assume the clerk--there's plenty of room for both. —William Carlos Williams In your transit journal,...
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Featured BloggerBy Paolo JavierMarch 7, 2017
“Filipino time, Mr Javier!” Fel Santos says out loud when I arrive ten minutes late to our meeting at Carmine’s on Broadway. Sporting a black New York Rangers hat, fashionable goatee,...
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Featured BloggerBy Hai-Dang PhanFebruary 28, 2017
“The taste for the archive is rooted in these encounters with the silhouettes of the past, be they faltering or sublime.” –Arlette Farge, The Allure of the Archives Letter from Lubbock (21 July...
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Featured BloggerBy Hai-Dang PhanFebruary 21, 2017
Composed of rustic landscapes public parks are partly dreamscapes set off for communal sharing. —Susan Howe, from “Vagrancy in the Park” "You are my brother" —William Faulkner, from Absalom, Absalom! 1. Waves of granite pavement outcrops,...
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Featured BloggerBy Hai-Dang PhanFebruary 14, 2017
Late in Leaving the Atocha Station, Ben Lerner’s novel about a young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, we receive this capsule description of the research project our...
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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