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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 Spring 2022 is “Poetry and Publishing: Readers’ Perspectives.”
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The Other Side of Reading
By Jenna Peng April 11, 2022
I’ve been thinking on a reader manifesto, rules to be, numbered shorthands to come, no time soon, I’m in the thick. I’ve been reading The Undercommons (PDF) by Fred Moten &...
After Reading
By Chaelee Dalton April 4, 2022
I start reading poetry books at their end, which is also what is before the book, proceed and precede blurred. By this I mean that as always, poetry fucks with...
The Other Side of Reading
By Jenna Peng April 11, 2022
I’ve been thinking on a reader manifesto, rules to be, numbered shorthands to come, no time soon, I’m in the thick. I’ve been reading The Undercommons (PDF) by Fred Moten &...
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After Reading
By Chaelee Dalton April 4, 2022
I start reading poetry books at their end, which is also what is before the book, proceed and precede blurred. By this I mean that as always, poetry fucks with...
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Translation as Praxis
By Juana Adcock March 21, 2022
I have often wondered whether being a translator might be the worst possible way to finance my writing addiction. Not only is the income earned through freelance translation highly unpredictable,...
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Of Stichography
By David Larsen March 7, 2022
§ Aphoristic form is deceitfully simple. It’s a prose-poetic form with an air of philosophic certainty, in which particularities are supposed to open onto universals, even though connecting them with...
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Scenes from the Life of a Translator
By Juana Adcock February 21, 2022
Opening scene: A translator is in her office, talking on the phone. She is surrounded by piles of books and papers, in a haze of smoke from the cigarette she...
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Translation Study
By David Larsen February 7, 2022
Poetry, in my post of last month, was rather like a personified being than a branch of language art. “Poetry made me do this,” I came close to saying, “poetry...
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This is Not a Metaphor
By Juana Adcock January 18, 2022
Sounds and resonances are liquid: they can be poured like wine, they can flood the soul, they can cross borders uncontained and unpoliced. As I drive between Tijuana and San...
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Translation and Poetry
By David Larsen January 10, 2022
I’m pleased and anxious to be writing on Translation and Poetry for Harriet. Pleased, because the theme unites two major preoccupations of mine, and anxious for the same reason, plus...
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On the Bodily Pleasures of the Written Word
By Cody-Rose Clevidence December 13, 2021
Often I wonder why anyone ever reads anything that’s not informative. Poetry is usually not cool animal facts, it rarely explains the economy to us, let alone how to replace...
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Third Place
By Noah Warren December 6, 2021
Why is it that the encounter with a text, which stimulates what must be thinking—an alert fullness; the wary thrill of standing a little beyond oneself; emergent novelty; the threat...