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Featured Book Reviews
Poetry News Round Up
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"Craft...is a counterrevolutionary machine"—Fargo Nissim Tbakhi on what Palestine requires of writers.
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Nameera Bajwa reviews "Rifqa" by Mohammed el-Kurd.
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Featured Blog Posts
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Featured BloggerBy A. Van Jordan December 18, 2023Ed 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 A. Van Jordan November 27, 2023
In February of 1997, I exchanged letters with the poet and scholar Agha Shahid Ali. He was my teacher and “supervisor,” at the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College,...
From Open Door
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Open DoorBy Harriet Staff December 22, 2023
In keeping with our annual tradition, Poetry Foundation staff share a book (or two) that brought them joy or comfort or pleasure this year. *** Holly Amos, Associate Editor American Inmate by Justin Rovillos MonsonRecently,...
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Open DoorBy Harriet Staff December 23, 2022
In keeping with our annual tradition, Poetry Foundation staff share a book (or two, or more) that brought them joy, or comfort, or pleasure this year. *** Janet Cheung, Web Producer I would...
About Harriet Books
Named after Harriet Monroe, the founding editor of Poetry magazine, Harriet Books centers the work of poets through book reviews, a weekly news roundup, and monthly featured blog posts.
Meet the Harriet Books Writers
Harriet Books features reviews by a rotating team of book reviewers, all of them poets. They bring a range of perspectives to poetry, criticism, and the art of book reviewing. Our reviewers seek to highlight works by people from underrepresented and marginalized backgrounds, books published by small and independent presses, and poetry in translation.
Meet the Book Reviewers
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Virginia Konchan is the author of the poetry collections Bel Canto (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2022),Hallelujah Time (Signal Editions, 2021), Any God Will Do (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2020), and...
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Janani Ambikapathy is a poet, critic, and translator. Her recent pamphlet If Not Theirs was published by Veer2. Her poems and essays have appeared in Lana Turner, Firmament, Datableed, The Rialto, Visual Verse, Modernism/modernity, Modern Poetry in Translation, and...
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Leonora Simonovis is a Venezuelan American poet, educator, and scholar. She earned a PhD in Hispanic literatures from Washington University in St. Louis and an MFA in creative writing from...
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Meet the Featured Bloggers
Every quarter, Harriet Books invites several poets as featured bloggers to write on a theme related to contemporary poetry and poetics.
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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