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 Jennifer ScappettoneMay 31, 2016
then with your tongue remove the tape Jean Toomer, “Her Lips Are Copper Wire” (1920) Italo Calvino, Le città invisibili, Turin: Einaudi, 1972. In a meditation on “The Invisible City” within his...
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Featured BloggerBy Harriet StaffMay 27, 2016
Paul Mariani visits the studios of WBUR Boston program Here and Now to discuss his new Wallace Stevens biography The Whole Harmonium. Tune in to hear Mariani discuss Stevens's writing...
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Featured BloggerBy Jennifer ScappettoneMay 26, 2016
…And what if all of animated nature Be but organic Harps diversely framed, That tremble into thought, as o’er them sweeps Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze, At once the Soul of each, and...
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Featured BloggerBy Jennifer ScappettoneMay 17, 2016
Sandro Botticelli, La Primavera (detail of Chloris), tempera on panel, c. 1483, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. As a child I lived with a reproduction of an image of Sandro Botticelli’s...
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Featured BloggerBy Jennifer ScappettoneMay 13, 2016
Amelia Rosselli in her home. Courtesy of the photographer, Dino Ignani. In 2014, after fourteen years of reading, researching, and translating the poetry of the polyglot poet Amelia Rosselli, I...
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Featured BloggerBy Jennifer ScappettoneMay 10, 2016
Image: Cathy Wilkes, I Give You All My Money, 2008; installation view, 2012. Courtesy the artist and the Modern Institute/Tony Webster Ltd. Photo: Jennifer Scappettone. Printed with permission of...
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Featured BloggerBy Jen HoferApril 30, 2016
Ask Jen Hofer what she’s working on and the answer will be something like: I’m translating four books, writing a few of my own, teaching, interpreting for Spanish-speakers in the...
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Featured BloggerBy Jackie WangApril 29, 2016
Notes for national corpse month, continued: Do dreams require belief? A system, like a machine with a dream at one end and belief at the other, each produced by the marvelous...
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Featured BloggerBy John KeeneApril 28, 2016
In “Translating Poetry, Translating Blackness,” John Keene argues that “we need more translation of literary works by non-Anglophone black diasporic authors into English, particularly by U.S.-based translators, and that these...
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Featured BloggerBy Cecily NicholsonApril 27, 2016
As it turns out, there’s no way to discuss poetry and money without also talking about work, institutions educational and otherwise, hierarchies of value, the reproduction of various normals—or, as...
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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