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...
All Posts
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Featured BloggerBy Jennifer TamayoApril 2, 2015
To kick off National Poetry Month, I reached out to The Mongrel Coalition Against Gringpo to ask them who they thought deserved recognition. Here's what they sent: GOLD STARS GOLD STAR FOR...
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Featured BloggerBy Ladan OsmanApril 2, 2015
A missing molar. A kiss on a missing molar. A miniature woman in a paper boat. The sea, paper. She requests I set fire to the sheet on which she drifts....
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Featured BloggerBy Brandon ShimodaApril 2, 2015
I’ve been in love with a corpse. —Etel Adnan, The Arab Apocalypse When I grow up I want to be an old woman. That's the first thing I thought. I was told: to be...
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Featured BloggerBy francine j. harrisApril 1, 2015
Hi. Happy Poetry Month. Thanks for reading. My instinct is to try and give you some theme that frames my thoughts about poets and poetry lately. Here are some things I’ve been...
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Featured BloggerBy Patrick James DunaganApril 1, 2015
You can teach the young nothing —Charles Olson, "The Distances" Cities located near waterways have always been my preferred locales for living in and loitering around. I like to walk about and...
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Featured BloggerBy Cynthia CruzApril 1, 2015
My brother and I I am currently at work on a book based on Ingeborg Bachmann’s quote (from her novel, The Thirtieth Year), “Keine neue Welt ohne Neue Sprache” (no...
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Featured BloggerBy Trisha LowApril 1, 2015
I guess I’m obligated to say happy (happy?) National Poetry Month but let’s be real, this April is going to be kind of a rough one. It’s been a shitty...
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Featured BloggerBy Elaine KahnMarch 31, 2015
Today is the last mixtape! I can think of no better way to end this series than by taking a look at the work of the wonderful curators who have...
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Featured BloggerBy Elaine KahnMarch 30, 2015
In 2009, while attempting to woo a music snob, I wrote to Byron Coley and asked him to help me make a mixtape. He responded with a track list called...
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Featured BloggerBy Elaine KahnMarch 27, 2015
Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta is an artist & casual historian living in San Francisco. Their first chapbook, PDF, was published by Solar Luxuriance in 2014. With Elana Chavez, they organize the Cantíl...
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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