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 Lisa JarnotJanuary 28, 2013
I'm in London about once a year, mostly to see the in-laws, and sometimes with the goal of a bit of sight-seeing. The city and its surroundings are of course...
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Featured BloggerBy Lisa JarnotJanuary 22, 2013
Mid-January is the time of travel in our household. We’re packed up for our annual trip across the Atlantic to visit family, friends, and poets in London. The transition from...
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Featured BloggerBy Lisa JarnotJanuary 14, 2013
In 2008, I wrote an essay called “Why I Hate MFA Programs, or an Argument to Prove That the Abolishing of the MFA Program in American Universities May, as Things...
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Featured BloggerBy Lisa JarnotJanuary 7, 2013
Robert Duncan: The Ambassador from Venus has been in print for almost six months now, and I’ve had time to think about what’s next. Biography writing feels a little bit...
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Featured BloggerBy Lisa JarnotJanuary 3, 2013
Every year I make the same resolutions: read all of Finnegans Wake, and read all of Shakespeare. Sometimes I get through the first hundred pages of Finnegan. With Shakespeare I’m...
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Featured BloggerBy Harriet StaffJanuary 2, 2013
With a new year upon us, we're thrilled to have Lisa Jarnot as our first Featured Blogger here on Harriet. Starting with Lisa, we will feature a new poet every...
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Featured BloggerBy Brandon BrownNovember 28, 2012
If Frank Ocean’s scream of devotion to something terrible is the key sound of the contemporary, it’s not altogether something horrible. It’s melodramatic and as such partakes of melos, the...
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Featured BloggerBy Brandon BrownNovember 20, 2012
http://youtu.be/sDSPybTFYHU On many weekend mornings at Alli’s house, she makes breakfast and I DJ. I know you’re thinking that this mirrors an extremely careless performance of normative gender roles, but it’s...
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Featured BloggerBy Brandon BrownNovember 14, 2012
Translating this book made me sick. I mean it gave me migraines, made me puke; I couldn’t sleep at night, regressed into totally out-of-character sexual behavior. The way I’ve put...
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Featured BloggerBy Brandon BrownNovember 8, 2012
Since these are posts that are supposed to concern the craft of poetry, I suppose it's okay to commence with a very practical remark about how I typically start a...
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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