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 LaTasha N. Nevada DiggsDecember 19, 2013
And the saga continues… Part 1 is here. 5. Walt Whitman wrote about the streets so does this make him hip-hop? I’m being an ass here but there is a point...
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Featured BloggerBy LaTasha N. Nevada DiggsDecember 18, 2013
On December 12, an old creative ally passed away suddenly. A brilliant MC, a thoughtful poet, a visual artist, a jack all of trades, Zook aka Gadzook aka Zookness aka...
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Featured BloggerBy LaTasha N. Nevada DiggsDecember 16, 2013
Flash. East Harlem. On 118th between Lenox and 5th resided one of my middle school crushes. On Columbus another crush was kissed during that fateful summer camp week at Bear...
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Featured BloggerBy LaTasha N. Nevada DiggsDecember 9, 2013
Holding It Down Ensemble, Harlem Stage, 2012. Photo credit: Vijay Iyer It was shortly after the poet Sabah As-Sabah passed. I did not know the man personally but for those...
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Featured BloggerBy LaTasha N. Nevada DiggsDecember 5, 2013
“Land is connected intimately to bodies, bones, and ghosts. A place, inhabited in a body and psychology, and in their symbols, waits to hear its own voice and to experience...
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Featured BloggerBy LaTasha N. Nevada DiggsDecember 3, 2013
1994. You were supposed to be a visual artist or a musician but somewhere you ended up here. Hanging upside down in a NYC train. Carhartt overalls and PNB Nation...
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Featured BloggerBy Carmen Giménez SmithNovember 26, 2013
"Tras la Tormenta" by Jose Meléndez Contreras In February, I’ll be spending a couple of days in DC at the Smithsonian American Art Museum to check out “Our America: The...
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Featured BloggerBy Carmen Giménez SmithNovember 22, 2013
I first watched the movie Peyton Place with my grandmother in the late 70s. She and I watched just about everything on TV: musicals, shows about UFOs, gritty and inappropriate...
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Featured BloggerBy Carmen Giménez SmithNovember 15, 2013
Aesthetically these five books run the gamut, but together they represent the current landscape of Latina poetry in the last year or so, although what Latina represents is contested. In...
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Featured BloggerBy Carmen Giménez SmithNovember 11, 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF28IgHV1pk In a different life I would have been the person who produces soundtracks for movies. I love music, but more importantly I like thinking about what songs go together, however...
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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