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 was “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: When I Waked, I Cried to Dream Again (W. W. Norton & Company, 2023); The Cineaste (Norton, 2013); Quantum Lyrics (Norton,...
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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 December 18, 2023
Ed Roberson is a master poet. Let’s get that out of the way up front. In his early 80s, he’s 13 books in, and he continues to go strong; if...
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Featured BloggerBy Vi Khi Nao December 11, 2023
About five or six months ago, I sought a book suggestion from my father. He handed me a Vietnamese edition of Pearl S. Buck’s Trang, which had a distinctive red cover. The...
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Featured BloggerBy Aisha Sasha John August 28, 2023
In May I got to experience poet and legend Ariana Reines read in person for the first time. Ariana is very alive. The story she told to introduce her poems...
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Featured BloggerBy Chen Chen August 14, 2023
Nearly everything I know about football can be summed up in two profoundly funny and funnily profound poems by Mary Ruefle “Elegy for a Game” and “Super Bowl.” Though neither explicitly mentions it, these poems...
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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...
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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