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 Eileen Myles & Eileen MylesApril 20, 2012
I want to prove to myself I am capable of writing a short blog. It’s a form, a simple one so it should be easily standardized. I just got off...
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Featured BloggerBy Annie FinchApril 20, 2012
Lavinia Greenlaw asks, "So nothing new exactly, except perhaps for the notion of the poem not belonging to the poet. Are we ready for that?" Are we? Are we ready for...
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Featured BloggerBy Thom DonovanApril 19, 2012
Photo courtesy Sara Kennedy Suzanne Stein and Anna Vitale are next up in a series of posts for National Poetry Month regarding how writing and art practices have changed in response...
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Featured BloggerBy Mark NowakApril 19, 2012
I've been seeking to find—or print myself—the perfectly structured literary magazine since I began editing and publishing XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics in the mid-1990s. Those early issues of XCP sought to be...
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Featured BloggerBy Kathleen RooneyApril 19, 2012
Last quarter, one of my astute undergraduate Reading Poetry students, Michael Ben Silva, turned in a midterm essay called “The Essential Gaudiness of Poetry: On the Difficulties of Understanding and...
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Featured BloggerBy Bhanu KapilApril 19, 2012
"Analyze compulsory admissions."—a label/decompression. Vanessa Place stuck it to the lapel of her jacket. I cut off a lock of my hair and placed it on a postcard of Lord Chatterton,...
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Featured BloggerBy Julie CarrApril 19, 2012
I haven’t recovered enough to attempt even a provisional a summary of what was said. Instead, I’ll say this: We opened with Object Oriented Ontology represented by Tim Morton who...
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Featured BloggerBy Amber TamblynApril 19, 2012
I am speechless. In under 3 days, we have raised over $11,000.00 for Diane Di Prima at GIVE FORWARD. As the emails started to flood my inbox from Give Forward, sending me...
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Featured BloggerBy Camille T. DungyApril 19, 2012
In my first post on Harriet this year, I suggested that I would eventually write a post about why I bother to respond to emails I receive from strangers. Tonight,...
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Featured BloggerBy Kenneth GoldsmithApril 19, 2012
I had long given up Richard Prince for dead. Once a heroic and radical appropriation artist—one who granted a wellspring of permissions to the current crop of conceptual writers—over the...
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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