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 Cody-Rose Clevidence November 22, 2021
We live in a communal experiment called the world. We were born into architectures of thought and art and culture that have been being built for millennia, shaped by all...
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Featured BloggerBy Noah Warren November 8, 2021
Non enim erat tunc. There was no then. —St. Augustine (epigraph to M. NourbeSe Philip's “Sal,” from Zong!) In my earlier post (here), I began where I was, trying to ground—physically, epistemologically—some experimental work. I read...
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Featured BloggerBy Muriel Leung November 1, 2021
Tell me about disappearance, and I will tell you about palimpsests. Everything we try to erase still manages to leave something behind.
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Featured BloggerBy Jonah Mixon-Webster October 25, 2021
Though the use of the N-word will largely remain a project of ambivalence (the pains/haunts of history in contrast to the flights/fights for freedom), it is still a cultural priority...
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Featured BloggerBy Cody-Rose Clevidence October 18, 2021
In his introduction to the anthology The Unwritten Song, Willard R. Trask cites what he calls "one of the very few detailed accounts of composition that … describes a process in...
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Featured BloggerBy Muriel Leung October 11, 2021
(Content Warning: Mention of suicide and sexual violence)
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Featured BloggerBy Noah Warren October 4, 2021
I’m writing from Berkeley, California, a city deeply imprinted by histories of experiment: in literature as in politics, the personal, the social.
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Featured BloggerBy Kayleb Rae Candrilli September 20, 2021
It is not an easy path to monetize your art. It’s not easy in the logistical sense, but it’s also not easy emotionally. I want to be pragmatic about the...
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Featured BloggerBy Kayleb Rae Candrilli September 7, 2021
The weight of this moment is undeniably heavy, and there is no other recorded time in human history I yearn for.
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Featured BloggerBy Tamiko Beyer August 16, 2021
A poem is a gift. Ephemeral when spoken or recited aloud. Impossible to fully grasp, hold, or hoard.
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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