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 Robert FernandezSeptember 17, 2015
Juan Carlos Galeano is a poet, translator, and essayist born in the Amazon region of Colombia. He has published several books of poetry, and has translated North American poets into...
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Featured BloggerBy Robert FernandezSeptember 15, 2015
Blake Bronson-Bartlett and I decided to embark on a translation of Stéphane Mallarmé after a lunch in Iowa City during which we had been discussing how Mallarmé seems so inert...
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Featured BloggerBy Robert FernandezSeptember 11, 2015
Comme des Garçons makes Mallarmé shirts to give to organ donors Kurt Cobain’s sweaters flexed green but should have flexed azure Azure is a harsh toilet cleaner sold at Aldis Mallarmé despised Miami...
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Featured BloggerBy Robert FernandezSeptember 8, 2015
William Blake, Naomi Entreating Ruth and Orpah to Return to the Land of Moab (1795). We transform the world but the world also transforms despite us. The world, our supports...
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Featured BloggerBy Robert FernandezSeptember 3, 2015
I wish I could have seen Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s show “Untitled (Vultures)” (1995). I grew up in South Florida where the vultures are constantly circling. It was actually not until I...
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Featured BloggerBy Robert FernandezSeptember 1, 2015
Nocturne III A night A night full of hushings, of the curled wool of perfume And incanting wing, A night Where phantasmagoric glowworms bump in nuptial blackness, At our own pace, linked together, ...
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Featured BloggerBy Amy KingAugust 31, 2015
Poetry, Careerism & Institutions: These concepts are often talked about but usually behind closed doors. The writers in this roundtable haven't necessarily reached solutions or conclusions, but we wanted to...
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Featured BloggerBy Amy KingAugust 30, 2015
If you don't know Anne Boyer's work, you should. She's a fierce intellect, tremendous poet, and laudable person. I'm grateful she spent time untangling my meandering questions. Her new book, Garments...
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Featured BloggerBy Amy KingAugust 28, 2015
Don't swear so much. Aren't we decorous? What Is a culture? It's an enormous detailed lie lived in, wrought beliefs, A loving fabrication. What's good about it? Nothing. It keeps you going, but institutionalizes...
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Featured BloggerBy Amy KingAugust 27, 2015
[Editor's Note: This post was written as a response to a letter originally posted on August 21st, responding to "What is Literary Activism?"] Dear Wendy Trevino, Juliana Spahr, Tim Kreiner, Joshua...
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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