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 Alli WarrenMarch 10, 2014
Just as traffic slowed on the commute home from work, “Juicy” came on the radio. From the brake-lit overpass I absentmindedly looked out at Oakland, letting the mid-tempo funk of...
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Featured BloggerBy Alli WarrenMarch 3, 2014
At the beer garden I select the bench where the sun will strike my face longest and strongest. I look up to chart the sun’s path and find the sky...
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Featured BloggerBy Lucy IvesFebruary 27, 2014
In a recent diary entry, I made a brief note I don’t entirely understand. It is as follows: Desire counterfeits time, is the voice of narration, of narrative (=promised emancipation). Here...
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Featured BloggerBy Lucy IvesFebruary 24, 2014
I have been traveling for the past week, and during this week I happened to have a conversation that made me consider something that I had previously not considered. I...
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Featured BloggerBy Lucy IvesFebruary 21, 2014
Sometimes I misread. And sometimes: words. When I was seven, in school, once a girl ran up to me and pulled me into a neighboring room, saying, “Someone wrote your name...
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Featured BloggerBy Lucy IvesFebruary 17, 2014
Having so far posted three (very) short essays in this space, I have come to a juncture at which—as I remarked in a cab that was hurtling up the BQE...
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Featured BloggerBy Lucy IvesFebruary 13, 2014
I have never known what to do with it. I have never known what to say about it. I once said to someone (who was my academic advisor at the...
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Featured BloggerBy Lucy IvesFebruary 10, 2014
I now think of celebrity in America as a form of historical painting. One of the reasons we have traditionally needed the famous is so that their acts (a.k.a., “deeds”)...
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Featured BloggerBy Lucy IvesFebruary 4, 2014
I learned how to write in the following way: I was taught to select the most accurate word to describe a given action, object. I was taught to value precision,...
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Featured BloggerBy Kazim AliJanuary 31, 2014
Bas-relief representing the Descent of the Ganges or the Arjuna's Penance, Mahabalipuram, India The stars we see exist in different space than we do, their well-known patterns and mythical associations...
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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