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 Camille RankineApril 18, 2014
On Monday night I stayed up until 3 a.m. waiting for a glimpse of the blood moon, a lunar eclipse where the moon shifts into earth’s shadow and flushes red...
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Featured BloggerBy Stephanie YoungApril 17, 2014
A few years ago I read Capital, Volume I with some friends from work. I was the person in this reading group who kept bringing up chapbooks. Someone else kept...
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Featured BloggerBy Divya VictorApril 17, 2014
In which I talk about reading Geoffrey Gatza's Apollo and Geoffrey talks about making Apollo Divya: Reading Apollo I will lay my cards on the table. I’ll put this offer on your table. We’ll make...
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Featured BloggerBy J. Michael MartinezApril 17, 2014
In the spirit of the times, here is my attempt to be "contemporary." However, even after any number of times employing Google Translate, ethnic politics kept emerging and the lyrical...
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Featured BloggerBy George QuashaApril 17, 2014
"America a Prophecy" title page (1793) For the eye altering alters all William Blake, “The Mental Traveler” Who reads Blake? The easy answer is almost everyone who reads poetry—that is, has read...
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Featured BloggerBy Julien PoirierApril 16, 2014
Whatcha doin’? The less you know about it, kid, the better. Aw, c’mon mister. I’m writing poetry. Hey, I’ve heard of that. ...Are you a fruit or something? Not exactly. I’m here to bring down...
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Featured BloggerBy E. Tracy GrinnellApril 16, 2014
with Rachel Bers “That is, a line is not an arrow, it’s its events” – Alice Notley ETG: About a year ago, Rachel Bers and I began working together in her studio with...
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Featured BloggerBy Kevin KillianApril 16, 2014
Flyleaf of New Poems 1940 signed by editor and several contributors. It’s still going at a reduced scale down on 24th Street at Folsom, but Adobe Books used to be...
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Featured BloggerBy Joyelle McSweeneyApril 16, 2014
Back then, I was still such a bad poet/and I didn’t know how to go all the way —Blaise Cendrars, “The Prose of the Trans-siberian,” trans. Ron Padgett, rewritten by...
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Featured BloggerBy Simone WhiteApril 16, 2014
Fibbergibbet and Mumbo Jumbo: Kara E. Walker in Two Acts, 2004. I remember things I never forgot. To spend an afternoon returning to the site of some wrong committed only...
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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