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 Sara WintzMay 1, 2014
This conversation with Marianne Morris took place at Oliveto in Oakland over flourless chocolate cake. Marianne and I first met in New York in 2008. She currently resides in Berkeley,...
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Featured BloggerBy David LauApril 30, 2014
An activist and literary spirit is the core of California Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera’s adventurous poetic career. From varied California locales, he’s pursued perhaps the Chicano poetic project, smuggling...
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Featured BloggerBy Stephanie YoungApril 30, 2014
The fifth and final in a series of posts featuring editors and publishers discussing their projects. Today: Patricia No and Giancarlo DiTrapano. Publication Studio was founded in 2009 in Portland, Oregon....
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Featured BloggerBy Kevin KillianApril 30, 2014
Detail from Christine Wertheim’s mUtter-bAbel (Counterpath). From Counterpath Press comes a brace of new books that involve us deeply into the historical roots not only of language, but of outrage...
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Featured BloggerBy Divya VictorApril 30, 2014
In which I talk about reading Laura Goldstein's awesome camera and Laura talks about making awesome camera Divya: Reading awesome camera Tamil Nadu, India. 21 May 1991. I am 8 years old...
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Featured BloggerBy Farnoosh FathiApril 30, 2014
Out of the cultural slipstream of visual surfeits, where the obese eye is blind to the occluded ear, Christine Hume’s work plies and ranges fervidly into the liberatory potential of...
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Featured BloggerBy J. Michael MartinezApril 30, 2014
Electronic literature continues to be an invigorating and compelling branch of contemporary poetics. If you are unfamiliar with Electronic Literature, check out the
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Featured BloggerBy David LauApril 29, 2014
Continued from part 1. 2. The poet often thought most typical of the postmodern period is, of course, John Ashbery. “He is…the poet who has thought most deeply about the mental life...
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Featured BloggerBy Sy HoahwahApril 29, 2014
Continued from Part 1 and Part 2. The next morning, shaking the sleep off, my nephew was standing at the window and gazing out onto North Hollywood. He asked me, "How...
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Featured BloggerBy George QuashaApril 29, 2014
Happenstance (part one of many parts), 1982-83 from Gary Hill on Vimeo. All men are sisters. Madeline Gins Poetry is translation. It takes one kind of experienced or thought reality and turns it...
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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