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Featured Book Reviews
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By Ernst MeisterTranslated By Graham Foust and Samuel FrederickReviewed By Janani Ambikapathy
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Poetry News Round Up
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"Bloodshed does nothing"—At the National Book Awards, finalists call for a ceasefire in Gaza.
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"We deserve life because we are human"—Hundreds of queer Palestinian collectives and allies share an open letter.
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Featured Blog Posts
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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 A. Van Jordan October 30, 2023
Saturday… late morning, damn-near noon, and I’m thinking about influences, role models, and what I admire in the work they do. As I get older, I’ve come to admire discipline,...
From Open Door
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Open DoorBy Harriet Staff December 23, 2022
In keeping with our annual tradition, Poetry Foundation staff share a book (or two, or more) that brought them joy, or comfort, or pleasure this year. *** Janet Cheung, Web Producer I would...
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Open DoorBy Jennifer Scappettone November 21, 2022
Maps, oh maps! […] sometimes in my sleep, I find myself walking on a map-like space, searching for a place I can at last call my own. But it always...
About Harriet Books
Named after Harriet Monroe, the founding editor of Poetry magazine, Harriet Books centers the work of poets through book reviews, a weekly news roundup, and monthly featured blog posts.
Meet the Harriet Books Writers
Harriet Books features reviews by a rotating team of book reviewers, all of them poets. They bring a range of perspectives to poetry, criticism, and the art of book reviewing. Our reviewers seek to highlight works by people from underrepresented and marginalized backgrounds, books published by small and independent presses, and poetry in translation.
Meet the Book Reviewers
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Sylee Gore is an interdisciplinary writer and translator. Her artist book, Even Still (Sampson Low, 2021), was commissioned by Poem Brut. Gore's awards include the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize, the...
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Janani Ambikapathy is a poet, critic, and translator. Her recent pamphlet If Not Theirs was published by Veer2. Her poems and essays have appeared in Lana Turner, Firmament, Datableed, The Rialto, Visual Verse, Modernism/modernity, Modern Poetry in Translation, and...
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Rebecca Morgan Frank was born and raised in Virginia. She earned an MFA from Emerson College and a PhD from the University of Cincinnati, where she was an Elliston Poetry...
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Christopher Spaide is a critic, poet, teacher, and Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. His essays, reviews, and poems have appeared in Contemporary Literature, The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Poetry, The Sewanee Review, and The Yale...
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Meet the Featured Bloggers
Every quarter, Harriet Books invites several poets as featured bloggers to write on a theme related to contemporary poetry and poetics.
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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