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 Patricia SmithJune 29, 2017
First, you’ve got to know about Chicago's West Side. Not the West Side of right now, with bland, suspicious dwellings sprouting up in the dead of night and white women...
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Featured BloggerBy Sandra Jackson-OpokuJune 27, 2017
“It is the power of her imagination that allows her to be at once aware of her position in the world, but not complacent in accepting it.” – Manuel Muñoz on...
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Featured BloggerBy Cheryl ClarkeJune 22, 2017
But I say it’s fine. Honest, I do. And I’d like to be a bad woman too, And wear the stockings of night black lace. And strut down the street with paint on...
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Featured BloggerBy Randall HortonJune 20, 2017
My initial encounter with Ms. Brooks occurred year two of an eight-year bid in a medium/max facility at Roxbury Correctional Center, Housing Unit III, C-Tier, Cell 17 in Hagerstown, Maryland,...
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Featured BloggerBy Matthew YeagerJune 15, 2017
Like you, I first met Ms. Brooks outside the famous Golden Shovel. In the spring of 2001, "The Pool Players" was lesson number one in Fran Quinn's undergraduate poetry workshop...
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Featured BloggerBy Simone MuenchJune 13, 2017
Photo by Lura Burnette When Quraysh Ali Lansana first invited me to blog about Gwendolyn Brooks, I was elated to be allowed this opportunity to write about such an...
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Featured BloggerBy Afaa Michael WeaverJune 8, 2017
“Save some of those for me, Michael, before you gobble them all up.” I was having afternoon tea with Ms. Gwendolyn Brooks, the grand lady of African American poetry. It was...
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Featured BloggerBy Evie ShockleyJune 6, 2017
“It was not natural. And she was the first.” With these words, June Jordan opens her incisive and deeply moving essay on poet Phillis Wheatley, whose emergence from the hold...
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Featured BloggerBy Quraysh Ali LansanaJune 1, 2017
This is the first of a series of posts honoring Gwendolyn Brooks during the month of her 100th birthday. I am honored to have curated the outstanding collection of poets...
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Featured BloggerBy Jennifer BartlettMay 22, 2017
As I mentioned in a previous post, among Eigner's research materials I found his annotated copy of the first installment of Jargon Press's The Maximus Poems. Of Eigner's most precious...
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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