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 Elaine KahnMarch 26, 2015
I don't think I've written any poetry since 2008 that Ally Harris hasn't edited, annotated, crossed out, or signed-off on. We were in school together at Iowa and wound up...
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Featured BloggerBy Elaine KahnMarch 23, 2015
While hunting down the poems for D. Scot Miller's playlist, I remembered that we were housemates for a brief period in 2008. Along with Doug (as I know D. Scot),...
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Featured BloggerBy Elaine KahnMarch 17, 2015
I could have met Tooth through a million different friends in numerous cities at any point over the last 13 years. In fact, it's a little bit of a mystery...
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Featured BloggerBy Elaine KahnMarch 10, 2015
Today's mixtape was curated by Elizabeth Robinson. I was lucky enough to study with Elizabeth while she was a visiting professor at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her seminar, Modernism and...
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Featured BloggerBy Elaine KahnMarch 2, 2015
One of the great gifts of having an artist for a friend is the unique education that comes of asking what are you into? Nearly all my favorite music, writing,...
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Featured BloggerBy Dolores Dorantes & Jen HoferFebruary 27, 2015
Photo by Jen Hofer. Ex busco el error como forma de respuesta Ana Tijoux Estamos deshechxs. Estamos deshechxs.1 No hay sanación. Hay respiración. Hay cuerpo. Hay lengua. Hay el espacio electrizado entre dos seres....
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Featured BloggerBy Dolores Dorantes & Jen HoferFebruary 27, 2015
Photo by Dolores Dorantes. A Hay un paisaje repetido en el monitor, un paisaje repetido en el recuerdo, un paisaje repetido en el audio del hiperlink. Hay una reproducción de códigos...
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Featured BloggerBy Dolores Dorantes & Jen HoferFebruary 23, 2015
Photo by Jen Hofer. Extremo1 Pero, nuevamente: ¿no es la dislocación una condición diaria y universal para todo mundo en este planeta? ¿No es que estoy sencillamente seleccionando representaciones de la...
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Featured BloggerBy Dolores Dorantes & Jen HoferFebruary 20, 2015
Photo by Dolores Dorantes. Ánima Repetir, reproducir,recrear, reforzar, retomar, recordar, retratar, retener, replicar, resignificar; todas estas instancias en las que utilizamos el prefijo re tienen que ver con la copia y,...
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Featured BloggerBy Dolores Dorantes & Jen HoferFebruary 19, 2015
Photo by Jen Hofer. Entidad Los Angeles, California. Febrero 18, 2015. Perdidamente, estoy pensando1 en la entidad como una alternativa a la identidad. Algo subterráneo, bajo la identidad; algo aéreo, sobrevolando más...
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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