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 Joyelle McSweeneyApril 29, 2014
“annihilating all that’s made/to a green thought in a green shade.” --Andrew Marvell, "The Garden" 1. After my first Harriet post, in which I rejected the ‘Future of Poetry’, I saw...
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Featured BloggerBy Julien PoirierApril 29, 2014
Nothing goes with dry ink like cold beer, but what happens when the beer dries up? When I broke my leg on a German parking lot in 2004, I was...
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Featured BloggerBy Rusty MorrisonApril 29, 2014
I’ve thought often about the value I find in poems that elicit panic in me when I read them (Pleiades, “Poems and Panic”). And, related to that, is the panic...
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Featured BloggerBy David LauApril 28, 2014
Contemporary social, political, and broadly historical themes have become more inescapable for me as a poet, and while they were present in my earlier work, this content now assumes a...
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Featured BloggerBy Stephanie YoungApril 28, 2014
The fourth in a series of posts featuring editors and publishers discussing their projects. Today: Sammy Greenspan and Karen Randall. Sammy Greenspan I started the press for myself, lusting for some kind...
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Featured BloggerBy Kevin KillianApril 28, 2014
Robert Duncan, one of only a handful of works in oil extant. Over dinner last night with Paule Anglim I realized this was the perfect time to ask about Robert...
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Featured BloggerBy Divya VictorApril 28, 2014
Considering Two Vandals of History: Hugo García Manríquez (2014) and “Thompson of Sunderland” (c. 1850) The “miscreant” is someone who breaks the law or, etymologically, is a mischief-maker who, in spirit,...
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Featured BloggerBy Rusty MorrisonApril 28, 2014
I look back through my notebook, stare at the screen of my laptop, and skim through the poetry books that are my current talismans. Nothing helps. I’ve let more than...
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Featured BloggerBy Thomas Sayers EllisApril 25, 2014
The Offense of Regular Black Self Defense, TSE 2013 I was standing on the corner of 24th & Castro in San Francisco waiting for the Muni (bus) when I...
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Featured BloggerBy Lynn XuApril 25, 2014
Over at the Marfa Book Company, where there is a beautiful gallery space—and where they’ve exhibited works by Robert Grenier, Roni Horn, Rosa Barba, Luis Camnitzer, Nicolas G. Miller, among...
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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