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 Timothy Yu October 10, 2022
I was a poet long before I even knew what a critic was. Children may be taught, as I was, to read poems and to write their own, but nobody...
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Featured BloggerBy Alina Stefanescu October 3, 2022
When I set out to write about my mother’s azaleas—the baroque of their annual fuschias, the decadence of their overwrought efflorescence—the azaleas remained unsplendid and sullen. The azaleas refused—or did...
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Featured BloggerBy Shayla Lawz September 26, 2022
In part two, I explored how lyric poetry transforms the reader by allowing the writer to be in conversation with the world, and how the soundtrack in my book speculation,...
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Featured BloggerBy Achy Obejas September 19, 2022
In October 2019, there were shootings in Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Long Beach, and Kansas City. Bernie Sanders had a heart attack and Simone Biles won her twenty-first medal at the world...
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Featured BloggerBy Kim Moore September 6, 2022
I Woke Up and it was political I made coffee and the coffee was political I took a shower and the water was. ...
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Featured BloggerBy Shayla Lawz August 22, 2022
In part one, I explored how poetry’s political power lies in its ability to transform the reader, focusing in particular on performance. In this section, I turn my attention to...
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Featured BloggerBy Kim Moore August 1, 2022
In 2020, as one of the judges for the Forward Prizes for Poetry, I was lucky enough to be invited to interview the poet Rachel Long, whose debut collection, My...
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Featured BloggerBy Shayla Lawz July 25, 2022
Art exists in the space of transformation. It lives in our minds and bodies intimately, ready to be called upon in our time of need: whether when we recall...
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Featured BloggerBy Achy Obejas July 11, 2022
When my bilingual poetry collection, Boomerang/Bumerán, was published last year, I felt a tremendous sense of gratification at seeing one of its central elements—the use of non-gendered language, particularly in Spanish—recognized, and...
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Featured BloggerBy Kim Moore July 5, 2022
In the pub after a reading, a man comes up to me to tell me how men of his generation (he seems to be in his late twenties/early thirties but...
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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