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 Alan GilbertApril 19, 2012
I first came to know Stephen Motika via his partner, who was a friend of mine in grad school at SUNY Buffalo, and who a decade-and-a-half later runs an exciting...
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Featured BloggerBy Martin EarlApril 19, 2012
Prose is all about accumulation (a morality of work), while poetry as it is practiced today is about the isolation of feelings (an aesthetics of omission). Among other things, prose is...
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Featured BloggerBy Eileen Myles & Eileen MylesApril 18, 2012
The lineup Miia Toivio and Marko Niemi were the avant garde slapstick duo. Lars Skinnebach was the Swedish man w dreds Jenny Tunedal is king of Scandinavian poetry I can’t find Cecilia’s card with...
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Featured BloggerBy John S. O'ConnorApril 18, 2012
My brother used to refuse to go to any movie whose review used the words "panoramic," "poignant," or (worst of all) "poetic." Each, he thought, was code for boring. I...
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Featured BloggerBy Lavinia GreenlawApril 18, 2012
The lyric self has never been quite what it seems as even those in on its early days knew. "I am not I," warned Sidney: "pitie the tale of me."...
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Featured BloggerBy Sina QueyrasApril 18, 2012
Last month, thanks to Vanessa Place and the Poetry Foundation, I was able to read from Gertrude's Stein's Stanza's in Meditation at the stunning home of Poetry in Chicago. To...
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Featured BloggerBy Edwin TorresApril 18, 2012
The net would seem to cast itself wide—after years at sea, tangents in recollection gather themselves to shake loose their structure and create something new. It's in this spirit of...
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Featured BloggerBy Garrett CaplesApril 18, 2012
One day in 2006 I was driving around Oakland with Dontrell Mayfield, a.k.a. DOT, or Dotrix4000, or 4Rax. Dot is half of the production duo The Mekanix, having helped...
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Featured BloggerBy Rodrigo ToscanoApril 18, 2012
Immediately—no sooner than I start typing this, does “class” (as we say) “enter into it.” But what is “it?” The configuration and flow of social life—is one way to phrase...
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Featured BloggerBy Eileen Myles & Eileen MylesApril 18, 2012
I’m doing facebook in my hotel room in Bergen when I suddenly ask myself why am I doing this? I need to be writing about this festival that’s just over....
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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