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 6, 2015
Ah, Twitter, the 140-character-constraint social media platform. Such fertile ground for poetry, celebrity mashups and algorithms. Here are some accounts worth checking out: @PoBizNews — Let's start with the obvious. This "News for...
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Featured BloggerBy Patrick James DunaganApril 6, 2015
Paul Blackburn is arguably the quintessential mid-20th century poet of Manhattan. As Jed Birmingham, co-editor with Kyle Schlesinger of the terrific zine-on-small-press-zines Mimeo Mimeo, remarks when considering the scene of...
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Featured BloggerBy John SakkisApril 6, 2015
RIP Richard O. Moore, thank you for the NET Outtakes I'm on the road again, down Interstate 5 again (Southern California says "The 5" Northern California says "5"), I'm on my...
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Featured BloggerBy Cynthia CruzApril 6, 2015
Mamma Andersson, Filly This past year I’ve been teaching poetry workshops based on the idea of the jeweled lyric poem. The lyric poem is a poem that utilizes the “I.”...
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Featured BloggerBy Cassandra TroyanApril 3, 2015
What is the idiom of friendship? How do you open yourself up to the possibility of another’s language in a way where you can let it enter your own as...
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Featured BloggerBy Noel BlackApril 3, 2015
"You Again" by Marina Eckler. Mirrored vinyl on mirrored glass, 2013. I remember standing on the corner of Mission and 8th Street in San Francisco some years ago when people...
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Featured BloggerBy Trisha LowApril 3, 2015
I first met Arabelle Sicardi through Cassandra Gillig, who was her roommate at the time in New Jersey, although tbh I think we already stalked each others' tumblrs. Cass told...
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Featured BloggerBy Gina MyersApril 3, 2015
Instead of going to AWP, I used my vacation days from work to go to Puerto Rico and it was glorious. Instead of going to AWP, I will show up to...
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Featured BloggerBy Andrew ZawackiApril 3, 2015
“The techno-linguistic machine is giving language to human beings, and also taking the place of human beings in language for the current generation,” writes Franco Berardi, in his strange, compact...
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Featured BloggerBy Laura MoriartyApril 2, 2015
Because I wanted there to be a book by David Brazil, having read his poems and chapbooks with interest, as well as the magazine Try, edited with Sara Larsen, and...
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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