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 Micah BallardApril 18, 2013
A few months ago I was asked to contribute some Auguste Press books for Luke Daly’s small press library he’s building at The Annex in Chicago. After an hour of...
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Featured BloggerBy David MeltzerApril 18, 2013
The needle points the way (Tao) the energy (literal, manifest, i.e., Chi) goes, flows, circulates into the coils of ear Of precious stones the diamond is preferred, its aspects cut &...
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Featured BloggerBy Evie ShockleyApril 18, 2013
“Who’s this our? Can I bring my mother?” ...
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Featured BloggerBy Laura SimsApril 18, 2013
1. I opened Just Saying for the first time to the second poem, “Instead.” I was immediately struck by the first section, which reads: To each his own severance package. The...
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Featured BloggerBy Anthony MadridApril 18, 2013
James Boswell The problem with Koch’s books about teaching children to write poetry is that his method does not teach them to be poets. It teaches them to make what...
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Featured BloggerBy Andrew JoronApril 17, 2013
"Hambone, Hambone, where you been? / Around the world and I'm goin' again." —Juba dance song In twenty-first-century culture, what's virtual is what's real. A literary magazine or publisher that lacks...
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Featured BloggerBy Vanessa PlaceApril 17, 2013
Each day ★ go about our business, walking past each ★, catching each ★’s eyes or not, about to speak or speaking. All about ★ is noise. All about ★ is noise and bramble, thorn and din,...
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Featured BloggerBy K. Silem MohammadApril 17, 2013
Can one have a good “ear” for radically disjunctive or "non-absorptive" poetry? This might sound like a perverse question, as experimentalism is often suspicious of formally conservative notions like “ear”...
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Featured BloggerBy Bill BerksonApril 17, 2013
George Stubbs, Whistlejacket, oil on canvas, circa 1762, 115 x 97 in. The National Gallery, London .... no better, but often worse, than what a French wit [La Rochefoucauld] had...
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Featured BloggerBy Roger ReevesApril 17, 2013
[continued from part 1, and part 2] AND WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH MAKING POEMS OR ART? I’m sorry I just got distracted trying to figure out if Diddy, of...
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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