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 Kevin KillianApril 22, 2014
Poet Aaron Simon, photographed by Kevin Killian October 30, 2011 I met the San Francisco-based poet Aaron Simon around Halloween 2011, when our hands touched, both of us reaching for...
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Featured BloggerBy George QuashaApril 22, 2014
art is (Speaking Portraits), Vol. II When for art is/poetry is/music is I first began asking poets, artists and musicians to say on camera what it— poetry, et al.—is, some...
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Featured BloggerBy Joyelle McSweeneyApril 22, 2014
"Grey" by Ronaldo Wilson from Center for Art and Thought on Vimeo. 1. In her essays in Princess Abandoned, translated with typical nimbleness by Don Mee Choi, poet Kim Hyesoon presents...
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Featured BloggerBy David LauApril 21, 2014
The System Has Got to Die The landscape of global capitalism has been substantially altered in the past six years. A mixed policy of austerity (cuts and state retrenchment) and fiscal...
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Featured BloggerBy Stephanie YoungApril 21, 2014
The second in a series of posts featuring editors and publishers discussing their projects. First up: Noel Black and Mary Burger. Shoplifter's Honor, cover design by Noel Black. 2004 —Noel Black Angry...
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Featured BloggerBy Divya VictorApril 21, 2014
In which I talk about reading OrWorse.Net and Nicolas Mugavero and Chris Sylvester talk about making OrWorse.Net Divya: On 'reading' OrWorse It has just crossed my mind that Easter is a good time to...
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Featured BloggerBy Sy HoahwahApril 21, 2014
One time someone asked me, as a Comanche poet was it beneficial acquiring an M.F.A. degree in Creative Writing? Yes, it was. I considered myself a poet before...
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Featured BloggerBy Lynn XuApril 21, 2014
Akhob—James Turrell’s third installation for Louis Vuitton—opened last June at Crystals in Las Vegas. Having missed all three retrospectives (at the Guggenheim in New York, the MFAH in Houston, and...
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Featured BloggerBy Kevin KillianApril 18, 2014
Artist Rex Ray’s iconic paintings of clowns at Gallery 16 in San Francisco Only one thing is as dreadful as a poetry reading meant to awe that falls flat, except...
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Featured BloggerBy Julien PoirierApril 18, 2014
“...the terrible and noteworthy irony...”—H.H. Bancroft. New York City during the war years was, unless you were eating sushi with the Simics, a dark and horrible place. It was as if...
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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