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 Noel BlackApril 28, 2015
I don't have time to read or write in the traditional sense anymore. I have two kids, family, a day job, problems, a car, etc. I don't really have time...
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Featured BloggerBy Trisha LowApril 28, 2015
I haven't known Chris Chen for very long but something that I like to say about him is that he's a ringer. Well, ok. So I don't mean that Chris...
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Featured BloggerBy Jericho BrownApril 28, 2015
A little more than a year ago, my friend forever Amber Dermont issued a challenge. The author--of the New York Times best seller The Starboard Sea and of the brilliant...
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Featured BloggerBy Jennifer TamayoApril 28, 2015
“It became important for me to look at my mother as an artist. To recognize and honor her point of view,” says artist LaToya Ruby Frazier about her collaborations with...
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Featured BloggerBy John SakkisApril 27, 2015
John: can we talk a little about the section "Four Colors for the Based God?" these poems are all caps, and through that they seem to mirror your handwriting poems pretty...
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Featured BloggerBy Patrick James DunaganApril 27, 2015
Jason Morris of PUSH (& Big Bell) ushered out this lovely thin pamphlet a few weeks ago. He had come across recordings of two class talks given by poet Clark...
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Featured BloggerBy Ladan OsmanApril 27, 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qik45Tw2iI4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWVLpOXSjLI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkUk4as0lxc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIemxg5thTo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFxOcVooRKs https://youtu.be/utG2EUuQiC8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASMBR2YuTtg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDsmVhRi07A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ak_NxrwgoM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFWkBgTZlYY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX60uMEJi94 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCLIHnMQFFM The poem pictured in the header's center image is Keith S. Wilson's "Minotaur, 16, Enters a Convenience Store." Creatures that appear trapped were in fact reluctant but eventually exited. These videos were captured...
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Featured BloggerBy Cynthia CruzApril 27, 2015
In 1953 the psychiatrist Jean Oury bought the castle Chateau La Borde, an hour from Paris. Oury bought the chateau in order to open an asylum that would, he hoped, be true...
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Featured BloggerBy Philip JenksApril 27, 2015
the world to tempt the thief inside a glass ball. To tell the truth. (That Thanksgiving I made a soup from instant potatoes. I think I had. Instant heaven. Rooms grave and grainy. I tried hard....
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Featured BloggerBy Andrew ZawackiApril 27, 2015
Chris Marker’s Le fond de l’air est rouge eulogizes and elegizes the end of the 1960s and ventures into the early seventies. A play on the stock phrase le fond...
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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