Featured Bloggers
Every quarter, Harriet Books invites several poets to blog on a theme related to contemporary poetry and poetics. The theme for Winter 2023 is “Poetry & Form.”
Featured Bloggers
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Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué is the author of four full-length books of poetry: Madness (Nightboat Books, 2022); Losing Miami (The Accomplices, 2019), which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Poetry; Jazzercise is a Language (The...
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Karthika Naïr is the co-author of A Different Distance (Milkweed Editions, 2021), renga written with poet Marilyn Hacker. Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata (Archipelago Books, 2019), her reworking of the foundational South Asian epic in multiple...
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Armen Davoudian’s Swan Song (Bull City Press, 2020) won the Frost Place Chapbook Competition. He grew up in Isfahan, Iran, and lives in California.
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Featured BloggerBy Armen Davoudian January 30, 2023
It’s easy to get lost in debates around form and content, or form and function, or form and freedom, or form and fill-in-the-blank—arguments for the importance of one side over...
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Featured BloggerBy Karthika Naïr January 23, 2023
चीन ओ अरब हमारा, हिन्दोस्ताँ हमारा रहने को घर नहीं है, सारा जहाँ हमारा खोली भी छिन गयी है, बैंचें भी छिन गयी हैं सड़कों पे घूमता है, अब कारवां हमारा Chin-o-Arab hamara, Hindustan...
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Featured BloggerBy Alice Notley March 4, 2021
I live alone in a culture that speaks a language, French, that's not my native one. My work, writing poetry, is solitary. Most of my professional activity that involves meeting...
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Featured BloggerBy Asiya Wadud February 25, 2021
(read Part I of Asiya Wadud's "Drift" here) Songe: think, consider, dream Josué Guébo’s Think of Lampedusa is a threnody for the 366 people killed in the 2013 shipwreck of a boat...
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Featured BloggerBy Asiya Wadud February 16, 2021
In the Merriam Webster Dictionary, drift the noun and drift the verb are defined in a handful of interlocking and overlapping terms. Each time a new meaning is offered, the...
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Featured BloggerBy Taylor Johnson January 26, 2021
"there is no absolute, only / surface rise on top of rise" —Christopher Gilbert, “Blues/The Blue Case against the Lack Of” Not necessarily an urge, not immediacy, not definition as truth,...
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Featured BloggerBy Taylor Johnson January 12, 2021
“On the streets there was word / of a presence. You were among / the throng caught up in the moment.” – Christopher Gilbert, “You, the Piece That Was There” Some...
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Featured BloggerBy Alec Finlay December 22, 2020
(read Part I of Alec Finlay's "On Not Walking" here) II. Coronavirus has, once again, collapsed my cycle, scratching my lungs and tightening my heart. Six months in and there’s no easing, no...
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Featured BloggerBy Alec Finlay December 8, 2020
In March of this year I found myself unable to walk – a bout of coronavirus in the week before lockdown (UK) turned chronic and hasn’t lifted. Unable to walk...
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Featured BloggerBy Michael Torres November 24, 2020
It’s Wednesday, November 4th, the day after the 2020 election. I’m on a walk with my wife as we trade off pushing our daughter in the stroller. There’s a park...
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Featured BloggerBy Michael Torres November 10, 2020
There are the poems I manage to write, and then, because I don’t believe in “throwing away” poems, there are the poems I’ve begun but don’t know how to finish....
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Featured BloggerBy Tyree Daye October 20, 2020
I didn’t open the pages of Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry (edited by Charles Henry Rowell) until I was pursuing my MFA at North Carolina State...
Previous Bloggers
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Austin Allen is the author of Pleasures of the Game (Waywiser Press, 2016), winner of the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. He has taught creative writing at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Cincinnati.
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Alina Stefanescu was born in Romania and lives in Birmingham, Alabama. She is a poet, writer, translator, and essayist, and her published works include a poetry collection, DOR (2021), which won the 2020...
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Poet and scholar Timothy Yu was born and raised in the suburbs of Chicago. He earned his BA at Harvard and a PhD at Stanford University. Yu’s scholarly and creative...
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