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 Brandon ShimodaApril 14, 2015
Three springs ago, I taught a class on documentary poetics. It met in the library of a literary/arts organization near downtown Tucson, Arizona. At the first meeting I showed Stan...
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Featured BloggerBy Yolanda WisherApril 14, 2015
You a poet / man? Uh-huh, uh-huh Me too. —Etheridge Knight Sixteen years ago, I was a disenchanted grad student living in West Philly in a second-floor row house apartment. Mark (now my...
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Featured BloggerBy Trisha LowApril 14, 2015
All hail Ed Steck, truest geek fan of all time. And I don't mean that in a pejorative way. I raised myself in fandom too, so I know that loving...
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Featured BloggerBy Patrick James DunaganApril 13, 2015
In my own reading and writing cosmology Alice Notley looms large. I playfully think of her and Joanne Kyger as two big witches of poetryworld, alternating the realms of light...
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Featured BloggerBy Laura MoriartyApril 13, 2015
I can’t count the number of poetry readings I have been to by Norma Cole and I’ve attended the odd lecture and occasional play, but there haven’t been that many...
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Featured BloggerBy Cynthia CruzApril 13, 2015
It is not you who will speak; let the disaster speak in you. --Maurice Blanchot Herta Müller In an interview in The Paris Review (Fall 2014) Herta Müller stated: Back then in the factory...
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Featured BloggerBy Sophia Le FragaApril 13, 2015
The part where he contrasts Baraka's "self-doubt and humility" (good poems) with his "anger" (bad poems).The part where Messerli cares more about the fact that Baraka published a bunch of...
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Featured BloggerBy Cassandra TroyanApril 10, 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 Trisha LowApril 10, 2015
I've known Michael Thomas Vassallo now for almost a decade. Which also means that in the first horror film he ever made, someone pretended to break my neck while I...
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Featured BloggerBy Andrew ZawackiApril 10, 2015
In the 2010 documentary Cave of Forgotten Dreams, archaeologist and curator of the Grotte Chauvet, Madame Dominique Baffier, points out that the entrance to the cave is brimming with red...
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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