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 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 Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué January 9, 2023
To call a literary work “unreadable” is to make a rather flexible aesthetic judgment. Most commonly, one means they didn’t like that work, found it too boring, too gruesome, badly...
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Featured BloggerBy Austin Allen December 19, 2022
Editor's Note: This is the third installment in a three-part essay. To read the first two installments visit these links: Part I and Part II. The ice caps are melting: criticism has failed....
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Featured BloggerBy Timothy Yu December 15, 2022
Part of the appeal of poetry as criticism, which I discussed in my last post, is the idea of a poem that can explain itself, with no intervention needed from...
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Featured BloggerBy Alina Stefanescu December 12, 2022
Then, again, one day, the one who was once young will learn that somewhere at the other end of this very earth the older one has died. At first she...
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Featured BloggerBy Austin Allen November 28, 2022
Editor's Note: This is the second installment in a three-part essay. To read the first installment visit this link. Here’s a distinction I try to honor: criticism may sometimes have a professional...
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Featured BloggerBy Timothy Yu November 14, 2022
For any writer, the life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge brings moments of painful recognition at every turn. Richard Holmes’s magisterial biography of Coleridge is replete with examples of the Romantic...
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Featured BloggerBy Alina Stefanescu November 7, 2022
In Critical Revolutionaries: Five Critics Who Changed the Way We Read, critic Terry Eagleton declares: “A critique must establish a certain distance from its object in order to appraise it.”...
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Featured BloggerBy Austin Allen October 24, 2022
Asking how my criticism relates to my poetry is like asking how my obsessions relate to my compulsions. It’s a question I’m much too glad to answer. I like Jhumpa...
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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...
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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