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 Ben FamaNovember 4, 2019
When I saw Diana Hamilton and Jameson Fitzpatrick were doing a free course on sentences, my interest bucked.
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Featured BloggerBy Diana Khoi NguyenOctober 29, 2019
In the realm of repetition, recursion is a 'running back,' and permutation, one way out of several possible variations on how a set of things can be arranged.
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Featured BloggerBy Diana Khoi NguyenOctober 21, 2019
I wanted to work with the family who survives (the photograph and the cutting), to employ poetry as a framework which supports what is missing.
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Featured BloggerBy Diana Khoi NguyenOctober 14, 2019
To explicitly employ the formal structure of a play as a book of poems is to say to the reader: what you see is indeed a stage, and here are...
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Featured BloggerBy Diana Khoi NguyenOctober 7, 2019
Surviving a loved one’s death has a way of removing filters from one’s life. Gone are the smokescreens.
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Featured BloggerBy Katy BohincSeptember 30, 2019
The community is, at the core, what sustains our art, and for me, my connection to it is often what sustains me separate from my art.
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Featured BloggerBy Katy BohincSeptember 9, 2019
It is only fair, I believe, to historically contextualize any piece of writing with a bit of astrology, or at least my writing, as if one were to describe the...
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Featured BloggerBy Justin Phillip ReedAugust 26, 2019
I like to wonder what Alison C. Rollins has done with Robert Hayden’s “Bone-Flower Elegy” in her poem, “The Beastangel.”
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Featured BloggerBy Justin Phillip ReedAugust 19, 2019
For a couple of years now, I’ve been troubling my art with the question: If I were truly what they claim to imagine I am, what would happen to them?...
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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