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 Dolores Dorantes & Jen HoferFebruary 16, 2015
Photo by Dolores Dorantes. Animal El Paso, Texas. Enero 2014 Definitivamente perdida. Feché 2014 otra vez. Pero estamos en 2015. ¿Correcto? (la velocidad, el tiempo, la continuidad). No, no pienso en ti...
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Featured BloggerBy Dolores Dorantes & Jen HoferFebruary 9, 2015
Photo by Jen Hofer. Entidades Los Ángeles, California. Enero 24, 2015. No entiendo mi vida, ni la vida. Y menos la muerte. La distancia. El tiempo. La proximidad. La velocidad. (Todas estas...
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Featured BloggerBy Dolores Dorantes & Jen HoferFebruary 3, 2015
Photo by Dolores Dorantes. Animales El Paso, Texas. Enero 9, 2014.1 No entiendo mi vida. No sé quién soy. Se, más o menos quién no quise ser. Como estudiante no quise alimentar...
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Featured BloggerBy Ronaldo V. WilsonJanuary 30, 2015
Sometimes, when the dark sky is very clear, I look up at the Big Dipper, and search for the North Star, though I never really know how to read the...
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Featured BloggerBy Ronaldo V. WilsonJanuary 22, 2015
In How to Draw What You See, the artist Rudy De Reyna’s reveals that: To render a faithful, realistic drawing, you must be able to observe the basic structure of...
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Featured BloggerBy Ronaldo V. WilsonJanuary 12, 2015
In 1999, I was a poetry fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Then, I had only recently finished the first set of comprehensive examinations of my doctoral...
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Featured BloggerBy Daniel BorzutzkyDecember 29, 2014
It is not enough to suppress the adversary if you do not erase her memory and her ability to organize an alternative project... In the face of this strategy, we...
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Featured BloggerBy Daniel BorzutzkyDecember 18, 2014
This report has been filed in accordance with the proper policy for identifying the dead Who’s the killer Brenda Berenice Delgado? Who’s the killer Alma Chavira? Who’s the killer Verónica Martínez Hernández? Who's the...
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Featured BloggerBy Daniel BorzutzkyDecember 12, 2014
The Interrogation and Detention of Abu Zubaydah 1. On April 15, 2002, per a scripted plan, the same CIA interrogator delivered what a CIA cable described as “the pre move...
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Featured BloggerBy Daniel BorzutzkyDecember 8, 2014
At the end of daybreak. . . Beat it, I said to him, you cop, you lousy pig, beat it, Aimé Cesairé, from “Notebook of a Return to the Native Land” (tr....
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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