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 Orlando WhiteNovember 3, 2015
The white space is just as important as the text in a poem, whether it’s the counter that shapes an O or S, a line break after a word or...
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Featured BloggerBy Mia YouOctober 30, 2015
Pierre Alferi and Oliver Cadiot's Choses Vues at Porte Montreuil Paris, France Part 2: On Transparency In Paris When It’s Naked, Etel Adnan writes: “And then, look at Paris, do it in...
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Featured BloggerBy Mia YouOctober 26, 2015
#patrickandavik Portland, Oregon Today is the one-month anniversary of my friends Avik Maitra and Patrick Worth, who got married in Portland. When I got married—six years ago, in the Cambridge, Mass., City...
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Featured BloggerBy Mia YouOctober 20, 2015
Film still from Action Books' trailer for Sorrowtoothpaste Mirrorcream, by Paul Cunningham. Utrecht, The Netherlands & Notre Dame, Indiana, USA Here is a chance to reflect on book reviewing, and here is...
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Featured BloggerBy Mia YouOctober 15, 2015
"Held" means "hero" in Dutch. Dean Bowen and Shida Boukhizou, photo by Rosa van Ederen Rotterdam, The Netherlands Poetry International is a foundation based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Our two most...
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Featured BloggerBy Mia YouOctober 13, 2015
#BigBang #clickbait Seoul, South Korea This fall, I joined the editorial/programming board of Perdu, an Amsterdam-based organization focused on poetry and performance (mixed with politics and philosophy). During days, Perdu is...
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Featured BloggerBy Mia YouOctober 5, 2015
Anonymous graffiti, Paris, 1968. Paris, France Part 1: On Opacity “In the memory of a woman there is always the memory of several others, as if to be woman and to...
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Featured BloggerBy Mia YouOctober 1, 2015
Pablo Picasso, "Mother and Child." Utrecht, the Netherlands *** After my son was born, everyone told me to write it all down. It can be cathartic, my midwife said, the one named...
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Featured BloggerBy Robert FernandezSeptember 30, 2015
Francisco Faria, Josely Vianna Baptista, and Chris Daniels on the beach near Pántano do Sul (photo by João Urban) Josely Vianna Baptista (Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, 1957) has written several books...
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Featured BloggerBy Robert FernandezSeptember 24, 2015
A Brief Taste of the Language of Exposure and Containment: Comments from NYT, Sept. 22, 2015, “How the US Can Welcome Refugees.” "On the Margins: Poetry and the Refugee (Part...
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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