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 is “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: Rise, which won the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award (Tia Chucha Press, 2001); M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A, (2005), which was listed as one the Best Books of 2005...
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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 November 27, 2023
In February of 1997, I exchanged letters with the poet and scholar Agha Shahid Ali. He was my teacher and “supervisor,” at the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College,...
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Featured BloggerBy Vi Khi Nao November 13, 2023
Editor’s Note: This is the second installment in a three-part essay. Read Part I here. I want to note the intriguing similarity between the Vietnamese word “nhà thơ” for poet and “nhà thờ”...
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Featured BloggerBy Andrea Cohen August 7, 2023
My father used to read to me at bedtime when I was a kid. One of my favorite books was Louis Untermeyer’s anthology, The Golden Treasury of Poetry, with Blake, Dickinson,...
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Featured BloggerBy Aisha Sasha John July 31, 2023
The first time I went to New York, or maybe the second, I read for the Segue series in the Zinc Bar: low stage, red velvet curtains—a windowless sexual basement,...
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Featured BloggerBy Chen Chen July 17, 2023
“Oh, he’s getting deported,” said my mother with a big, bright smile, right as my father was leaving the house to meet with an immigration lawyer. For years I’ve ruminated...
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Featured BloggerBy Andrea Cohen July 10, 2023
You haven’t seen Blazing Saddles until you’ve seen it in the hospice where your mother is spending her last three weeks, and she keeps saying, wait, it gets funnier. Madeleine Kahn, Cleavon Little,...
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Featured BloggerBy Allison Adelle Hedge Coke June 26, 2023
Editor's Note: This is the final installment in a three-part essay. Read Part II here. Here we have something for you folks, we hope You enjoy it as we enter our social section, thank...
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Featured BloggerBy Alexandra Lytton Regalado June 12, 2023
Editor’s Note: This is the third installment in a three-part essay. Read Part II here After the pandemic, I understood surrender. It was February 2020, my father had just died, we’d sold our...
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Featured BloggerBy Nilufar Karimi June 5, 2023
Editor’s Note: This is the third installment in a three-part essay. Read Part II here Parts I and II of “Murmurations” focused on the colonial violence of metaphorizing the heart and the...
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Featured BloggerBy Alexandra Lytton Regalado May 22, 2023
Editor's Note: This is the second installment in a three-part essay. Read Part I here. I’m stuck in the elevator of a storage facility with four movers, and, when an hour passes, I climb...
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Featured BloggerBy Allison Adelle Hedge Coke May 15, 2023
Editor's Note: This is the second installment in a three-part essay. Read Part I here. The part where we state some of the ecological issues within the State of the field. The US publishing industry...
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Featured BloggerBy Nilufar Karimi May 8, 2023
Editor's Note: This is the second installment in a three-part essay. To read the first installment, visit this link: Part I. The word arrhythmic, from the Greek arrhythmos or without rhythm, did not always have...
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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