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 Sophia Le FragaApril 20, 2015
Today is April 20th, the unofficial holiday of cannabis enthusiasts. Celebrate the giggles and munchies while flipping through some of these poetry books while you toke. 1. Fantasy — Ben Fama I think I would...
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Featured BloggerBy Trisha LowApril 20, 2015
On a facebook thread not too long ago I told V Manuscript that I would like for him to come to the Bay Area and deliver a large volume of...
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Featured BloggerBy Patrick James DunaganApril 20, 2015
Collaboration is an ideal hands-on way for two or more poets and/or artists to get to know each other's imaginations from the most intimate level on up. My earliest experience...
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Featured BloggerBy Cynthia CruzApril 20, 2015
"To feed” is the most basic verb, the most fundamental, the most rooted. It expresses the primordial activity, the primary, basic function, the act “I” engage in even before I...
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Featured BloggerBy Sophia Le FragaApril 19, 2015
McNally Jackson is hosting the launch of The Animated Reader tonight, and you should come out. Contributors Mónica de la Torre, Cory Tamler, Wayne Koestenbaum and Yan Jun will be reading,...
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Featured BloggerBy Gina MyersApril 17, 2015
In This Connection of Everyone With Lungs, Juliana Spahr’s “Poem Written from November 30, 2002 to March 27, 2003” opens with a litany of thoughts upon waking in the morning...
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Featured BloggerBy Patrick James DunaganApril 17, 2015
I arrived in San Francisco for graduate school during the rise and fall of the late 90s dot-com dustup. It wasn't any big thing to me. I made my way...
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Featured BloggerBy Brandon DowningApril 17, 2015
CUNY Chapbook Festival March 31-April 2, 2015 I always try to spend at least a bit of time at the CUNY Chapbook Festival, an annual few-day event staged at the Graduate Center’s...
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Featured BloggerBy Trisha LowApril 17, 2015
I have never met Katy Mongeau in real life, so I'm not entirely sure she has a soul. But that's ok, because Katy is simultaneously a banshee, a witch, a...
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Featured BloggerBy John SakkisApril 16, 2015
Since 2005 I've been keeping a list of books read by year. Since 2010 I've been intermittently writing mini-reviews of those books, what I sometimes call "associative reviews." I'm no...
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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