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 Roger ReevesApril 24, 2013
April 18, 2013 The Chicago River is swollen; and for the first time in over a century, they are allowing it to flow into Lake Michigan, the lake that provides the...
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Featured BloggerBy Hannah GambleApril 24, 2013
When I was 8 years old I took a shit on my carpeted bedroom floor because my younger brother made me angry. I did this while glaring at him, just...
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Featured BloggerBy K. Silem MohammadApril 24, 2013
In my last post I used Robert Creeley’s “I Know a Man” to illustrate the basic principle behind torque: that of twisting or swerving away from an expected cadential trajectory....
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Featured BloggerBy David MeltzerApril 24, 2013
What’s gone returns as parable. Banjoist J. P. Pickens was the first (and most constant) improvisation partner. Another was Jim Gurley later lead-guitarist for Big Brother & The Holding Company. Singer-songwriter...
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Featured BloggerBy Anthony MadridApril 24, 2013
Two kinds of readings: a kind I call a “bento box” reading, and a kind I call “teaching a good class.” In a BENTO BOX READING, each member of the audience...
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Featured BloggerBy Camille GuthrieApril 23, 2013
At any time, in any corner, in my house, you can find a menagerie my daughter has set up: a congregation of fairies, Playmobil people, stuffed animals, thingies. Her scooter...
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Featured BloggerBy Anthony MadridApril 23, 2013
Beautiful book, if you can get a hold of a copy: Basho and His Interpreters (Makoto Ueda, Stanford University Press, 1992). Listen to how it works: • Top of each page,...
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Featured BloggerBy Alan DaviesApril 23, 2013
Thunderbird is a fairly seamless collection of lyrics / integrated around recurring themes and values. Beginning perhaps twenty years ago / the I-poem came under attack – for being egotistic /...
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Featured BloggerBy Bill BerksonApril 23, 2013
Lisa K. Blatt, Untitled (Icebergs), video still, 2008 Any two meter square sheet of glass to lean against any wall. —Lawrence Weiner Years ago, I got this terrific note from Connie’s then...
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Featured BloggerBy David MeltzerApril 23, 2013
The music goes round & round Spinning Wheel Where she stops nobody knows Mandalas pressed into discs Or Meier or Fludd or Bruno Human dead center in the Circle Corresponding to the universe The all the everything...
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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