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 Eleni SikelianosFebruary 5, 2018
I want to start here with a couple of sentences I just wrote for another publication: "When I was a young poet I had two main aims: 1) write amazing...
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Featured BloggerBy Marie BuckJanuary 29, 2018
Right now, a Saturday morning, I’m listening to the Pauline Anna Strom compilation Trans-millenia Music, which is ethereal and weird and intense, while the cats romp around me on the...
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Featured BloggerBy Marie BuckJanuary 17, 2018
Last year I had a strange set of experiences wherein three different, new-to-me people I brought home on separate occasions each started ruminating aloud, post-coitally, about how they’d been thinking...
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Featured BloggerBy Marie BuckJanuary 9, 2018
My first poetry professor, in undergrad, used to talk a lot about “the lyric moment” in a poem. I’m not sure if this is a thing a lot of people...
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Featured BloggerBy Marie BuckJanuary 3, 2018
About two years ago, I was sitting at a bar with a friend and realized I no longer believed in socialism. I mean: I certainly believe in the principles, but...
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Featured BloggerBy Sueyeun Juliette LeeDecember 26, 2017
1. Dark Times Thirst for Light When I look back at some of the language I use to describe my interest in light—what endures, fragility, breath, spirit—I think a more comprehensive...
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Featured BloggerBy Sueyeun Juliette LeeDecember 18, 2017
1. Gaston Bachelard’s Solitary, Vertical Flame Can I articulate a Poetics of Light without discussing light’s source? Let me turn to some texts that have helped me a bit in invigorating...
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Featured BloggerBy Sueyeun Juliette LeeDecember 11, 2017
1. How It Opens Inside I am especially magnetized to works that hold and reflect light emotionally. I’m particularly moved by Michele Kishita’s paintings, the way they gesture to landscapes and...
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Featured BloggerBy Sueyeun Juliette LeeDecember 4, 2017
1. I announce with a cry: Oh, to speak the light As light speaks into us, what do we say back into it. I have been on a nearly decade-long journey...
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Featured BloggerBy Vincent KatzNovember 30, 2017
I am surrounded by books and anthologies of poetry. They give solace in dark times, fire up emboldened resistance, and provide delight in musical form. Here’s a selection of what...
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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