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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

    • Safia Elhillo

      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...

    • Headshot of A Van Jordan

      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,...

    • Image of Vi Khi Nao

      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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    By 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...

  • Abstract painting in with earthy oranges, browns, and yellows, and a smattering of brighter greens and purples.
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    By 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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    By 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...

    Abstract painting (acrylic and ink on paper) featuring a dense web of lines in various colors, black, white, yellow, pink, blue, etc.
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    By 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...

    Surreal image of two outsized football players on a field, limbs askew. Hovering over them is the  a woman's upper body, her face seemingly masked. In the backdrop are flags and other spectators. Lithograph, black and white.
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    By 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,...

    Abstract painting, gouache on paper, swirls in black, purple, green, with a horn-shaped sliver of blue sky and field shining through, as well as a larger pocket of light with curved lines in orange, greens and blues.
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    By 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,...

    Black and white image of trees along a river bank, shrouded in morning mist.
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    By 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...

    Photo of an art installation, eight red clay bowls with many cracks running through them, set against a a red clay backdrop that is also cracking, within a wooden frame.
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    By 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,...

    Abstract illustration in black and white oddly shaped objects evoking futuristic machinery.
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    By 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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    By 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...

    Black and white close up photo of a calla lily, which appears heart-shaped, with shadow, against a black backdrop.
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    By 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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    By 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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Previous Bloggers

    • Headshot of poet Aisha Sasha John

      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...

    • Chen Chen

      Chen Chen is the author of the poetry collections Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency (BOA Editions, 2022), selected as a 2023 notable book by the American Library Association,...

    • Headshot of poet Andrea Cohen

      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),...