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 David LauMay 2, 2014
Continued from Part 1. [Transcribed and edited by David Lau.] Part II: The Multiplicity of Chicanismo When I steered our conversation toward Chicano literature and questions of Chicano identity, as well as contemporary...
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Featured BloggerBy Thomas Sayers EllisMay 2, 2014
Amiri Baraka, TSE 2012 Continued from Part 1. "Sophocles confirms the European origin of the motherfucker. Most Coloredpeepas known this a long time." —Amiri Baraka 3 What the _____ is He Talking About Maybe...
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Featured BloggerBy George QuashaMay 2, 2014
Heaven and hell the same city differently dwelled it is dwelling things that make them what they are —Robert Kelly, Uncertainties A thinking before the action that allows the action unhindered: Poetry says what’s...
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Featured BloggerBy Simone WhiteMay 2, 2014
Continued from Part 1. for erica The thoughts of my text don’t mirror literary criticism, are shapes of...
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Featured BloggerBy J. Michael MartinezMay 2, 2014
“Hegemony is like a pillow: it absorbs blows and so sooner or later the would-be assailant will find it comfortable to rest upon” Robert Cox, Approaches to World Order After I attended a...
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Featured BloggerBy Sara WintzMay 2, 2014
This is Part 2 of my conversation with Marianne Morris (part 1 is here). We discuss Cambridge (where Marianne went to undergraduate and graduate school), Marianne's writing practice, Chinese Medicine,...
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Featured BloggerBy Julien PoirierMay 1, 2014
Continued from Part 1. Hobbling through Tompkins Square Park on a fine summer afternoon, I was lucky enough to cross paths with Karen Weiser. My crutches kicked off a conversation about...
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Featured BloggerBy Thomas Sayers EllisMay 1, 2014
Flat Out Chillin', TSE 2014 America loves blue, blue jeans, that lil blue pil, and blue toilet water, and American poets are famously fond of packaging and repackaging one of...
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Featured BloggerBy Simone WhiteMay 1, 2014
Fish, photographed by Anthony Leslie I suggest reading and re-reading Kevin Killian’s posts here on Harriet (which led me to think about an old post of Alli Warren’s, "On...
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Featured BloggerBy Kevin KillianMay 1, 2014
Jack Spicer’s death certificate. “Easy on squeezing/ Frost off the pumpkin/ J. Spicer fecit/ Man, but don’t break it.” Those of you who are my friends on Facebook will know...
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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