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 Urayoán NoelSeptember 8, 2016
It’s been a challenging twenty months for Puerto Rico. Against the backdrop of an ongoing economic and political crisis and the PROMESA bill’s imposition of a financial control board or...
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Featured BloggerBy Duriel E. HarrisAugust 31, 2016
Coenobite passport photographs. 12 August 2016. (photographs provided by author) You give yourself to something and it sucks on you until you disappear —Lisa Samuels, Tomorrowland (Deep Surface Productions, 2012) I. Along the...
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Featured BloggerBy Duriel E. HarrisAugust 29, 2016
Jack/Death. Still from WC Tank’s “Tomorrowland,” a filmic adaptation of Lisa Samuels’ book-length poem Tomorrowland (Shearsman Books, 2009). (photograph provided by WC Tank) A surrender Vessel and vehicle for interstitial visions City...
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Featured BloggerBy Duriel E. HarrisAugust 26, 2016
Krista C. Franklin, "Paper Dolls," detail, 2004, mixed media collage. (Collection of the author; photograph provided by the artist) I. From “Blood Labyrinth” I split and split again and wade in...
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Featured BloggerBy Duriel E. HarrisAugust 18, 2016
I. The I in the Center of Experiment Giving myself the assignment to conduct experiments in joy this past spring was initially a way to shift my approach to following through...
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Featured BloggerBy Duriel E. HarrisAugust 11, 2016
Photo credit: Dawn M. Joseph Music, I decide, and choose a favorite playlist. ♪ It’s my pre-show audio, a compilation of disco tunes I like to blast over the theater’s...
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Featured BloggerBy Duriel E. HarrisAugust 5, 2016
Photo credit: Dawn M. Joseph, "looking out" (copyright 2015) I. False starts Although it felt like a confession as I began to type this, I knew that it was not. I...
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Featured BloggerBy John BeerJuly 29, 2016
David Need’s Offshore St. Mark bills itself as a text sitting adjacent to the gospel of Mark, not a commentary or exegesis or even meditation but something more like an...
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Featured BloggerBy John BeerJuly 25, 2016
One of the problems with writing about poems, and especially with writing about poems that are trying to reach something that isn’t articulable in language, is that it’s impossible. &...
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Featured BloggerBy John BeerJuly 18, 2016
As I’ve been looking over past contributions to the blog, I was especially struck by the series of posts Stephanie Young curated last April, in which poets talked about the...
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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