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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...

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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 Allison Adelle Hedge Coke May 15, 2023

    Editor's Note: This is the second installment in a three-part essay. Read Part I here. The part where we state some of the ecological issues within the State of the field. The US publishing industry...

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    By Nilufar Karimi May 8, 2023

    Editor's Note: This is the second installment in a three-part essay. To read the first installment, visit this link: Part I. The word arrhythmic, from the Greek arrhythmos or without rhythm, did not always have...

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    By Alexandra Lytton Regalado April 24, 2023

    I thought I knew something about loss. Fireworks burst over the Salvadoran coast, blue, red and green, each pulse a heartbeat, a flower blooming then wilting, the spit and crackle...

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    By Allison Adelle Hedge Coke April 17, 2023

    One day before his 45th birthday, on April 1, 1984, the Prince of Soul, Prince of Motown, the iconic and widely beloved singer songwriter Marvin Gaye was assassinated by his father...

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    By Nilufar Karimi April 3, 2023

    How to wash a heart: Remove it.                                –Bhanu Kapil   Then I felt his knocking  ]] inside my chest.      ...

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    By Armen Davoudian March 27, 2023

    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. In the previous part of this essay, I...

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    By Karthika Naïr March 20, 2023

    I tumbled into poetry twice. Both times, dance and the dysfunctional body, mentioned in earlier posts, catalyzed the deep-dive. The first time was as a child and nascent reader; then...

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    By Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué March 6, 2023

    So far, in this essay, I’ve been tracing the practice of “unreadability” in poetry of the 20th century, focusing especially on US lineages of concretism and Language poetry. Part I...

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    By Armen Davoudian February 27, 2023

    Editor's Note: This is the second installment in a three-part essay. To read the first installment visit this link: Part I. If alliteration in general is the presence of the same sounds...

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    By Karthika Naïr February 20, 2023

    Normally (if one may use the word “normally” for a Walter Mittyesque scenario), if one of my literary heroes were to reach out to me, for any reason, I reckon...

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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),...