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 Camille RankineApril 29, 2019
We tend to think of these words—imagination, empathy—as belonging unquestionably in the realm of the good. But imagination, for one, can be brutal.
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Featured BloggerBy Ronaldo V. WilsonApril 26, 2019
Somewhere between Meena’s living and my remembering, here, is the act of looking to return to the Blue Heron’s walk.
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Featured BloggerBy Sawako NakayasuApril 25, 2019
I am thinking about Will Alexander. I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that I am thinking about Cecilia Vicuña.
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Featured BloggerBy Timothy YuApril 24, 2019
Aesthetic judgments about Instagram poetry may be less interesting than the contexts for poetry that are revealed in our reactions to it.
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Featured BloggerBy Prageeta SharmaApril 23, 2019
With an idea of the song lyric, I could hold a present tense in my head for as long as I needed to bring the dead back to speak to...
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Featured BloggerBy Oli HazzardApril 22, 2019
One morning in March 1974, W.S. Graham went for a walk on Zennor Hill in Cornwall and fell into a bramble bush.
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Featured BloggerBy Julien PoirierApril 19, 2019
I am trying to write a poem. But what I really want is to make something that makes no more sense than anything else we see happening on a daily...
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Featured BloggerBy Andrew ZawackiApril 18, 2019
Graffiti is the useless surplus of those purely functional discourses—so normative by consensus they’ve been camouflaged as normal—deployed in the daily service of a project, product, or progress.
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Featured BloggerBy Sueyeun Juliette LeeApril 17, 2019
Can I keep doing what I’m doing and not be captured by the academic system?
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Featured BloggerBy Kazim AliApril 16, 2019
The fragment is both the classical evocation of the lost whole as well as complete and whole containing that meaning.
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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