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Harriet's 2019 National Poetry Month Blogathon Is Here!

Originally Published: March 29, 2019
2019 National Poetry Month blogathon graphic.
Illustration by Lizzie Gill.

We at Harriet are excited to announce the lineup for our annual celebration of National Poetry Month. This year we'll be featuring 22 new blog posts by some of your favorite Featured Bloggers from years past. Starting on Monday, April 1st, tune in each weekday for a new post. And now, without further ado, here are the poets writing in April:

Garrett Caples, "Imagined Selves: David Rich on the Anti-biographies of Stephen Jonas"

Alli Warren, "On Sleep"

Aase Berg, translated by Johannes Göransson and Joyelle McSweeney, "Language and Madness"

Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, "An Aspect of Chatter, Alive in the Today and People: A Computational Approach to the Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks"

Cynthia Cruz, "The Melancholia of Class"

Jericho Brown, "Invention"

Marie Buck, "Some Scattered Thoughts on Poetry, Political Mood, and the Internet"

Trisha Low, "On Permeability"

Roger Reeves, "Parrhesia in a Post-Fact Epoch, or ‘Poetry isn’t revolutionary but it is a way of knowing why it must come’"

Jill Magi, "'True Poems flee—': A Refugee Poetics or Poetry as Permanently Temporary"

Diana Hamilton, "Saint Strawberry"

Kazim Ali, "The 'Tradition' of the Fragment"

Sueyeun Juliette Lee, "Self Portrait in an Academic Poetry Industrial Complex Mirror"

Andrew Zawacki, "A Whole Other System: ‘Paris photo graff’ Continued"

Julien Poirier, "The Cult of Hot Air"

Oli Hazzard, "Enter a Cloud: On / With / For / After W.S. Graham"

Prageeta Sharma, "On Grief and the Lyrics of 70s Soft Rock"

Timothy Yu, "Instagram Poetry and Our Poetry Worlds"

Sawako Nakayasu, "I Am Thinking About Will Alexander"

Ronaldo V. Wilson, "Figures From the Blue Heron to Below as Above"

Camille Rankine, "The Known Unknown: Persona, Empathy, and the Limits of Imagination"

Divya Victor, ">>[WOMAN WAILING]: On the Problem of Representing Trauma as a Brown Woman Within the Institution of Poetry"