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 Laura MoriartyApril 9, 2015
The economy is a big subject and “v. (economy)” is a masterful section of The Ordinary (Compline 2013). This mastery is created with the interesting technique of including self-doubt...
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Featured BloggerBy Philip JenksApril 9, 2015
“It’s just typing.” (Kakie Urch) First, I’m honored to contribute anything this Month. Of National Poetry Month. At Harriet. And, admittedly I’ve been freaking out. Everything I’ve been reading looks so...
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Featured BloggerBy Brandon DowningApril 9, 2015
Talk Series: Brian Droitcour on Poetry at the New Museum’s Triennial with Jenny Zhang, Brandon Brown, and Cathy Park Hong The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church Friday, March 20, 2015 It’s not a...
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Featured BloggerBy Cynthia CruzApril 8, 2015
Notes Toward a New Language: Into the Desert The Journey of the Magi (fragment), Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni) People who know me know I’m obsessed with the Desert Fathers, the first Christians...
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Featured BloggerBy Patrick James DunaganApril 8, 2015
Innumerable poets have used the concept of working or communicating with the dead as a stand-in for the business of poetry. To speak of "the dead" these days is often...
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Featured BloggerBy Sophia Le FragaApril 8, 2015
... because I'll be in front of my computer blogging for you! Check these out if you find yourself in Minneapolis. The only thing better than a poetry reading is a reading...
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Featured BloggerBy Clifton GachaguaApril 7, 2015
What might a poem about grief and the immediate shock that precedes it look like? I’d like to imagine a long meditation, something about a collective hurt and shared pain,...
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Featured BloggerBy Brandon ShimodaApril 7, 2015
There is a mound of earth in the city of Hiroshima where the bodies of 70,000 nameless people killed by the atomic bomb are buried. The mound is in the...
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Featured BloggerBy Trisha LowApril 7, 2015
Horror movie nerds are kind of usually white boys. Like Aaron Winslow. And sometimes I like to think about how bad white boys have it. It’s really hard for them!...
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Featured BloggerBy Andrew ZawackiApril 7, 2015
“Mama’s got a lover,” sang Lou Reed, in a track by that name from his 1986 album Mistrial, A painter I am told She’s getting out of real estate For the art scene...
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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