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 Tan LinMay 4, 2014
Tan Lin: Can you tell me how Troll Thread got started? and when exactly? Chris Sylvester: Troll Thread started in August 2010. It was another platform for the distribution of things...
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Featured BloggerBy Tan LinMay 4, 2014
Tan Lin: Can you tell me how Gauss PDF got started? and when exactly? Gordon Faylor: GPDF's inaugural release came about in November 2010. By that point, I'd made a good...
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Featured BloggerBy David LauMay 4, 2014
Continued from Part 2. [Transcribed and edited by David Lau.] Part III: Aztlán Against Surveillance Culture DL: I then wonder what you think about what’s going on politically today. Your colleague Mike Davis...
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Featured BloggerBy Tan LinMay 4, 2014
I wanted to look at a few mostly online publishing platforms that I’ve been following for the past couple of years. I’ll be doing interviews with J. Gordon Faylor at...
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Featured BloggerBy George QuashaMay 3, 2014
I want to end this April excursion in the blogosphere with a few brief notes. The purpose has been to sketch out areas for further inquiry while honoring works that...
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Featured BloggerBy Sara WintzMay 3, 2014
Born in Texas, Zoe Tuck has been a participant in the Bay Area literary scene since 2008: she co-curated the Condensery Reading Series in Oakland and worked at Small Press...
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Featured BloggerBy Sara WintzMay 3, 2014
Cheena and I became friends after I participated in a poetry reading at their house in 2011. Since then, we have moved to new parts of town, changed jobs while...
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Featured BloggerBy Divya VictorMay 3, 2014
In which I talk about reading Ryan Eckes's Old News and Ryan talks about making Old News Divya: Reading Old News Philly’s poetry scene has had more than its fair share of...
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Featured BloggerBy E. Tracy GrinnellMay 3, 2014
...the task of creating these spaces is necessarily the responsibility of those readers who insist that the text remain open, as a form of resistance... natural death I wrote the above in...
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Featured BloggerBy Stephanie YoungMay 2, 2014
I'm in the car with Chuck Stebelton, Mike Hauser, Robert J. Baumann and Alli Warren, on our way to visit Blackhawk Island and Lorine Niedecker's cabin. It's the last day...
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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