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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BenjamĆn 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 Americaās 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 ItĀ Passes Through My Body (Nightboat Books, 2021),Ā SYNCOPEĀ (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2019), and Crosslight for YoungbirdĀ (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 BenjamĆn 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 āwrittenā and as published, that I can scarcely describe it. As I say in my intro, I bought...
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Featured BloggerBy Camille T. DungyApril 13, 2012
I'm thinking of nostalgia and it's role in my life as a poet. It used to be really important to me, nostalgia. Say I was reading Amber Tamblyn's...
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Featured BloggerBy Rodrigo ToscanoApril 13, 2012
āLucid dreamingāāa dream state where one is aware that one is dreaming. Person might try to āinfluenceā the āoutcomeā of such dreaming, scenarios fashioned into desired results by dreamer. Person might...
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Featured BloggerBy Edwin TorresApril 13, 2012
Sharon Mesmer wrote a poem called "This Poem" which is now posted on her blog, Dubious Labia. Last week she emailed it to the Flarf list, which I'm on...as a...
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Featured BloggerBy Rachel ZuckerApril 12, 2012
I write what might best be described as new vintage poetry. Despite my love affair with the renaissance and the late victorians, I am still a modern gal who...
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Featured BloggerBy Rachel ZuckerApril 12, 2012
"I think itās important for poets to occasionally try to articulate 'what kind' of poetry they write," I wrote in a recent Harriet post, but, like most writers, I...
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Featured BloggerBy Julie CarrApril 12, 2012
Maybe Rachel Zucker and Rodrigo Toscano are right. Maybe there are types of poets: those with powers (Bhanu Kapil and her divinations?) and those with weapons (Vanessa Place, reputed to...
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Featured BloggerBy Eileen Myles & Eileen MylesApril 12, 2012
Thereās no information in a phone like this. Iām talking about the āstupidā phone I hold in my hand. You canāt just sit there reading your texts. And thatās all...
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Featured BloggerBy Barbara Jane ReyesApril 12, 2012
Domesticity is one of those "topics" that make me hostile. To be specific, the expectation that as women we relish (and languish) without resistance in domesticity is what makes me...
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Featured BloggerBy Craig Santos PerezApril 12, 2012
According to the Fall 2010 demographics at the University of Hawai'i, MÄnoa (UHM), nearly 3,500 students identify as native, with 3,328 Pacific Islanders and 89 American Indians/Alaska Natives. When I was...
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Featured BloggerBy Amber TamblynApril 12, 2012
PREVIOUSLY, ON IOWA PART ONEā¦ Back To The Lecture At Hand.... It was Saturday night and poets Derrick Brown, Beau Sia and I were performing at The Mill in Iowa City during...
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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