Featured Bloggers
Every quarter, Harriet Books invites several poets to blog on a theme related to contemporary poetry and poetics. The theme for Fall 2023 was “Poetic Lineages.”
Featured Bloggers
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Safia Elhillo is Sudanese by way of Washington, DC. She is the author of The January Children (University of Nebraska Press, 2017), winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for...
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A. Van Jordan is the author of five collections: When I Waked, I Cried to Dream Again (W. W. Norton & Company, 2023); The Cineaste (Norton, 2013); Quantum Lyrics (Norton,...
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Vi Khi Nao is part of the collective She Who Has No Master(s). Her books include A Bell Curve Is a Pregnant Straight Line (11:11 Press, 2021), Sheep Machine (Black...
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Featured BloggerBy A. Van Jordan December 18, 2023
Ed Roberson is a master poet. Let’s get that out of the way up front. In his early 80s, he’s 13 books in, and he continues to go strong; if...
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Featured BloggerBy Vi Khi Nao December 11, 2023
About five or six months ago, I sought a book suggestion from my father. He handed me a Vietnamese edition of Pearl S. Buck’s Trang, which had a distinctive red cover. The...
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Featured BloggerBy Muriel Leung November 29, 2021
A longtime mentor and friend, the poet and visual artist Truong Tran has gifted me many things, from guidance towards my first book (“Write the book as if you are...
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Featured BloggerBy Cody-Rose Clevidence November 22, 2021
We live in a communal experiment called the world. We were born into architectures of thought and art and culture that have been being built for millennia, shaped by all...
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Featured BloggerBy Noah Warren November 8, 2021
Non enim erat tunc. There was no then. —St. Augustine (epigraph to M. NourbeSe Philip's “Sal,” from Zong!) In my earlier post (here), I began where I was, trying to ground—physically, epistemologically—some experimental work. I read...
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Featured BloggerBy Muriel Leung November 1, 2021
Tell me about disappearance, and I will tell you about palimpsests. Everything we try to erase still manages to leave something behind.
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Featured BloggerBy Jonah Mixon-Webster October 25, 2021
Though the use of the N-word will largely remain a project of ambivalence (the pains/haunts of history in contrast to the flights/fights for freedom), it is still a cultural priority...
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Featured BloggerBy Cody-Rose Clevidence October 18, 2021
In his introduction to the anthology The Unwritten Song, Willard R. Trask cites what he calls "one of the very few detailed accounts of composition that … describes a process in...
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Featured BloggerBy Muriel Leung October 11, 2021
(Content Warning: Mention of suicide and sexual violence)
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Featured BloggerBy Noah Warren October 4, 2021
I’m writing from Berkeley, California, a city deeply imprinted by histories of experiment: in literature as in politics, the personal, the social.
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Featured BloggerBy Kayleb Rae Candrilli September 20, 2021
It is not an easy path to monetize your art. It’s not easy in the logistical sense, but it’s also not easy emotionally. I want to be pragmatic about the...
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Featured BloggerBy Kayleb Rae Candrilli September 7, 2021
The weight of this moment is undeniably heavy, and there is no other recorded time in human history I yearn for.
Previous Bloggers
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Poet, choreographer, and performer Aisha Sasha John is the author of I have to live (McClelland & Stewart 2017), finalist for the 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize; THOU (Book*hug, 2014), finalist for the 2015 Trillium Book...
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Andrea Cohen is the author of eight poetry collections, including The Sorrow Apartments (Four Way Books, 2024), Everything (Four Way Books, 2021), Nightshade (Four Way Books, 2019), Unfathoming (Four Way Books, 2017),...
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