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 Tyree Daye October 6, 2020
I learned to call it a redbird before a cardinal. My mother pointed and said, “look, there’s a redbird,” and my little face turned to the sky. Where I’m from,...
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Featured BloggerBy Kimberly Alidio September 15, 2020
Whenever poet Kim Hyesoon is asked whether her poetry represents her country — a question that is rarely asked of a poet whose work is perceived to be rooted in...
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Featured BloggerBy Kimberly Alidio September 1, 2020
I have a newly released book (from Belladonna*) that undoes in language normative relations of self, lover, body, nature, verb, noun, adjective. This description is from the book’s metadata, which...
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Featured BloggerBy Sabrina Orah Mark August 24, 2020
When my sons were babies they only slept if they slept like metaphors. I swaddled them. I wrapped them tight in a soft muslin blanket printed with moons or trees...
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Featured BloggerBy Sabrina Orah Mark August 11, 2020
In Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, a children’s book by Mill Martin Jr. and John Archambault, the whole alphabet climbs up a tree. The letters are so heavy the trunk bends...
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Featured BloggerBy Marianne Boruch July 28, 2020
COVID. But the sorrow doesn’t stop. The best escapes from lockdown have meant walks in the woods. I can praise our favorite trails or new lush spots that friends in our...
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Featured BloggerBy Marianne Boruch July 14, 2020
Since lockdown and now its loosening at the end of May, the governors declaring for good or ill their phases for opening stores and restaurants a sliver then halfsies then...
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Featured BloggerBy Orlando White May 29, 2020
For the month of May, Harriet will feature blog posts from the archive, along with a brief introduction. This week's post, "Play and Imagination: On the One-Word Poem" by Orlando...
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Featured BloggerBy Harriet Staff May 22, 2020
For the month of May, Harriet will feature blog posts from the archive, along with a brief introduction. This week's post, "Undying and Reparative Magic: A Conversation with Anne Boyer,"...
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Featured BloggerBy Jericho Brown May 15, 2020
If the presumed content of a sonnet is that it’s a love poem, how do I—a believer in love—subvert that. What is a Jericho Brown sonnet?
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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