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 Rachel ZuckerApril 17, 2012
Non-poetry sources round up: For my first book, I worked a lot off of Erich Auerbach's Mimesis. Using some of his vocabulary, some of his themes. Overall, the book was heavily...
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Featured BloggerBy Rachel ZuckerApril 17, 2012
Non-poetry sources round up: Nick Cave: Not his lyrics especially, nor his compositions particularly. It's his manner, his privileging affect over all else - lust, murderous rage, bitterness, disgust. A poem...
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Featured BloggerBy Rachel ZuckerApril 17, 2012
Non-poetry sources round up: Since May 2009, I have experimented with using the stock market as a "source" for my poems. At the time, I was trying to write in response...
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Featured BloggerBy Rachel ZuckerApril 17, 2012
I'm interested in the edge between poetry and prose, between poetry and everything that is not-poetry. I love poetry but often all I want to do is read not-poetry and...
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Featured BloggerBy Barbara Jane ReyesApril 17, 2012
Another class I am currently teaching this semester is Filipino American Literature in the Asian American Studies Department at San Francisco State University. Now, I always swore that if I...
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Featured BloggerBy Linh DinhApril 17, 2012
I understand there's a new film about Gabriela Mistral, and you were at the US opening. Please tell us about that, and who came to this opening? Yes, the Chilean filmmaker...
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Featured BloggerBy Amber TamblynApril 17, 2012
Earlier this month, my spirit animal and close family friend poet Michael McClure sent me an email regarding San Francisco Poet Laureate Diane Di Prima who is now 78 years...
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Featured BloggerBy Annie FinchApril 17, 2012
Popular 19th century depiction of Anne Bradstreet "Heroic couplets?," my husband Glen asked in astonishment. "Why are you writing in heroic couplets?" Well, I answered him, half-wondering, again, the same thing myself,...
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Featured BloggerBy Linh DinhApril 16, 2012
How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing...
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Featured BloggerBy Christian BökApril 16, 2012
Against Expression (edited by Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith) is an anthology that collects examples of Conceptual Literature, many of which represent what the Oulipians might call acts of "plagiarism...
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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