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 Tyehimba JessNovember 21, 2016
"It is difficult to get the news from poetry, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there." āWilliam Carlos Williams I have that quote from William Carlos Williams...
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Featured BloggerBy Tyehimba JessNovember 4, 2016
This year marks the twentieth anniversary of Cave Canem, the organization that calls itself "a home for black poetry," the organization that, I would argue, has changed the face of...
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Featured BloggerBy Harmony HolidayOctober 31, 2016
We shall be riding dragons in those days, black unicorns challenging the eagle/ we shall shoot words with hooves that kick clouds, fireeaters from the sun, we shall lay the...
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Featured BloggerBy Harmony HolidayOctober 26, 2016
We are standing under a glaring spotlight screaming at the tops of our lungs, from the backs of our throats which we grind together to access black blues unwords, thymus...
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Featured BloggerBy Harmony HolidayOctober 19, 2016
DJ Rashad Right Temptation The synths fire like the loaded guns planted in the middle of the jungle gyms on the playgrounds of Chicagoās Southside neighborhoods, black breaking as jade breaks...
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Featured BloggerBy Harmony HolidayOctober 6, 2016
Look for me in the whirlwind She teaches us that voodoo was used as a means, during slavery, for slaves to break free from the slave master. When the slave...
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Featured BloggerBy UrayoƔn NoelSeptember 30, 2016
Every once in a while Iāll hear a Latinx poet on social media describe getting published in Poetry as a dream come true. Invariably Iāll roll my inner eye. Sure,...
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Featured BloggerBy UrayoƔn NoelSeptember 23, 2016
The day Prince died I had just arrived in San Francisco (fashionably late, of course) for Kuwentuhan (Talkstory), a project conceived and curated by the poet Barbara Jane Reyes, who...
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Featured BloggerBy UrayoƔn NoelSeptember 16, 2016
Juan Carlos Flores in 2013 at the entrance to one of the places he loved the most in Havana: the Cuban Collection, National Museum of the Fine Arts. Photo...
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Featured BloggerBy UrayoƔn NoelSeptember 13, 2016
In my last post, I commented on five poems by diasporic Puerto Rican poets published in 2015. Here, for side two of my mixtape, I will comment on some Diasporican...
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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