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 Chaelee Dalton April 4, 2022
I start reading poetry books at their end, which is also what is before the book, proceed and precede blurred. By this I mean that as always, poetry fucks with...
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Featured BloggerBy Juana Adcock March 21, 2022
I have often wondered whether being a translator might be the worst possible way to finance my writing addiction. Not only is the income earned through freelance translation highly unpredictable,...
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Featured BloggerBy David Larsen March 7, 2022
§ Aphoristic form is deceitfully simple. It’s a prose-poetic form with an air of philosophic certainty, in which particularities are supposed to open onto universals, even though connecting them with...
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Featured BloggerBy Juana Adcock February 21, 2022
Opening scene: A translator is in her office, talking on the phone. She is surrounded by piles of books and papers, in a haze of smoke from the cigarette she...
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Featured BloggerBy David Larsen February 7, 2022
Poetry, in my post of last month, was rather like a personified being than a branch of language art. “Poetry made me do this,” I came close to saying, “poetry...
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Featured BloggerBy Juana Adcock January 18, 2022
Sounds and resonances are liquid: they can be poured like wine, they can flood the soul, they can cross borders uncontained and unpoliced. As I drive between Tijuana and San...
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Featured BloggerBy David Larsen January 10, 2022
I’m pleased and anxious to be writing on Translation and Poetry for Harriet. Pleased, because the theme unites two major preoccupations of mine, and anxious for the same reason, plus...
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Featured BloggerBy Cody-Rose Clevidence December 13, 2021
Often I wonder why anyone ever reads anything that’s not informative. Poetry is usually not cool animal facts, it rarely explains the economy to us, let alone how to replace...
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Featured BloggerBy Noah Warren December 6, 2021
Why is it that the encounter with a text, which stimulates what must be thinking—an alert fullness; the wary thrill of standing a little beyond oneself; emergent novelty; the threat...
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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...
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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