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 Lillian-Yvonne BertramMay 22, 2015
And so I would like to make it clear that I am going to talk about race. Again. I would like to make it clear that my writing about race,...
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Featured BloggerBy Lillian-Yvonne BertramMay 18, 2015
“There are times when scandal feels like the sun that race revolves around.” –The Racial Imaginary “The white writer feels injured in this moment—misunderstood and wounded—and believes it is the reader,...
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Featured BloggerBy Lillian-Yvonne BertramMay 7, 2015
in tlilli, in tlapalli: three tejanos in red and black Part 1 of the interview can be found here. LB: I love this idea of Anzaldúa appearing in Marfa in...
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Featured BloggerBy Lillian-Yvonne BertramMay 5, 2015
I’ve known Josh Franco for about a year now. He teaches in the Art History department at Ithaca College, and I teach in the Writing Department. We both came to...
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Featured BloggerBy Cassandra TroyanMay 1, 2015
I interviewed Elana Chavez and Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta on March 28th in Oakland, California about their new Cantíl Reading Series, which features only poets of color. We met at “Books for...
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Featured BloggerBy Noel BlackMay 1, 2015
With a tip of the hat to Elaine Kahn and her mix-tape posts on Harriet, here's a mix-tape of some of my favorite comic poems. I'm calling these selections LulzPo,...
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Featured BloggerBy Jennifer TamayoMay 1, 2015
Happy to bookend my posts with another message from the Mongrel Coalition Against Gringpo: Some of these books have been published under different titles, but we understand it's hard to...
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Featured BloggerBy John SakkisMay 1, 2015
10. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy And Its Consequences- John Allen Paulos I think I borrowed this book from my Dad in the 80s. There are roughly 7 billion people living today, every...
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Featured BloggerBy Andrew ZawackiMay 1, 2015
Street art in Paris is increasingly approachable, if not palatable—even potable. Someone had left a can of Dr. Pepper in front of Ender’s brooding angel (in my previous post), as...
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Featured BloggerBy Cassandra TroyanMay 1, 2015
Carrie: i'm reading your piece on tract – trace "The ground is like a bad omen. You can drag a stone back to the place of departure and still be stuck in...
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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