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 Kenneth GoldsmithApril 26, 2012
In advanced poetries, there was no postmodernism. Beginning with Mallarmé and ending with Language Poetry, the emergence of digital culture signified a break with modernism, replacing deconstructive tendencies with strategies...
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Featured BloggerBy Sina QueyrasApril 26, 2012
When I said in an earlier last post that I go to poetry to think, Lisa Robertson was the first poet that came to mind. Hers is a poetry that...
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Featured BloggerBy Eileen Myles & Eileen MylesApril 26, 2012
I should have asked Trini Dalton for one of her poems because they were amazing I thought. Trini’s a prose writer and an art writer and a rock writer and...
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Featured BloggerBy Thom DonovanApril 26, 2012
Illustration by Sam R. White Anelise Chen is next up in a series of posts for National Poetry Month regarding how writing and art practices have changed in response to the...
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Featured BloggerBy Linh DinhApril 25, 2012
When the Nelson Algren Committee was started in 1989, most of his books were out of print, and now they are available again. There is also the Nelson Algren Birthday...
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Featured BloggerBy Garrett CaplesApril 25, 2012
The following news comes courtesy of Noel Black and Patrick James Dunagan. Noel Black: Dear Friends, the great West Coast poet and publisher Kevin Opstedal (Gas Magazine, Surf Zombie, Blue Press, etc.)...
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Featured BloggerBy Camille T. DungyApril 25, 2012
[Editor's Note: Please see Camille Dungy's "Reading Writers" for a correction to this post.] I remember seven thousand years ago meeting Daisy Fried in the Hilton lobby at the AWP...
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Featured BloggerBy Bhanu KapilApril 25, 2012
Last year, for National Poetry Month, I visited Garfield Elementary in Loveland, Colorado and did "I remembers" with the fourth grade. This April, I went again. Our collaborative poem is...
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Featured BloggerBy Linh DinhApril 25, 2012
American poets have become politically irrelevant, for the most part. Like everybody else, they still have political opinions, but there are no real public venues for them to express these,...
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Featured BloggerBy Annie FinchApril 25, 2012
The I that is still I arises but not (I)n every poem there are poems that arise around (I)t (I)nstead... I have felt for years that there are some poems (Williams, Hughes, Bogan,...
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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