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 Kazim AliJanuary 29, 2014
The body is a way of understanding the universe and so the universe must be a way of understanding the body. In either case, the deepest thinking about either is...
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Featured BloggerBy Kazim AliJanuary 27, 2014
Photo by Tanya Rosen-Jones As snow falls again thickly out the window I wonder twice. First that it is a wonder at all that it snows in the winter, so...
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Featured BloggerBy Kazim AliJanuary 22, 2014
Barnett Newman: “The Stations of the Cross.” Israeli settlers are apparently entering the grounds of the Temple Mount and climbing on top of the structure of the Dome of the...
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Featured BloggerBy Kazim AliJanuary 15, 2014
Ink drawing by Liz Morrison. Thinking about the long winters of my childhood in the Canadian North reminds me of how much we loved the summers, spent every minute on...
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Featured BloggerBy Kazim AliJanuary 9, 2014
And these days anyhow I am reminded more often that usual about my cold childhood in Jenpeg, Manitoba. The cold polar air crashes down the latitudes to meet us! Normally...
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Featured BloggerBy Kazim AliJanuary 6, 2014
When you wrote a letter—out by hand—you pressed your pen into the page, you hoped some energy into it. You folded it, you put it in an envelope, you sealed...
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Featured BloggerBy Kazim AliJanuary 2, 2014
January is a month with two faces. In 1953 Yoko Ono wrote her first score, called SECRET PIECE. It consisted of one line of typescript: “Decide on the one note you...
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Featured BloggerBy LaTasha N. Nevada DiggsDecember 30, 2013
Wangechi Mutu, The End of eating Everything (still), 2013. Animated video (color, sound), 8 minutes 10 seconds. Image Courtesy of the Artist. It’s a Sunday three weeks ago. My eyeglasses...
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Featured BloggerBy LaTasha N. Nevada DiggsDecember 27, 2013
Haile Selassie Centennial, Jamaica 1992 "You're just human, I don't have time for human frailties." Sun Ra Most of Saturday night was digging through folders in search of one photo. A...
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Featured BloggerBy LaTasha N. Nevada DiggsDecember 20, 2013
Before we jump back in, last night was Zook's funeral. Taking the A train to Utica, I am reminded that Boys and Girls High School was where the African Street...
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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