Jeffrey Harrison Explained

Jeffrey W. Harrison (born Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American poet. Born in Cincinnati, he was educated at Columbia University, where he studied with Kenneth Koch and David Shapiro.^{[1] [2]} His most recent poetry collection is Into Daylight (Tupelo Press 2014), which follows The Names of Things: New & Selected Poems (The Waywiser Press, 2006).^[3] His poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines, including The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, The Yale Review, Poets of the New Century. His honors include Pushcart Prizes, Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Arts, and Amy Lowell Traveling fellowships. He has taught at George Washington University, Phillips Academy, and College of the Holy Cross. He is currently on the faculty of the Stonecoast MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine.^[4] He lives in Dover, Massachusetts.^[5]

Published works

Full-Length Poetry Collections

• Book: Into Daylight . registration . April 2014. Tupelo Press. 978-1-936797-43-1 .
• Book: The Names of Things: New and Selected Poems . June 2006. Dufour Eds. 978-1-904130-20-8 .
• Book: Incomplete Knowledge . October 2006 . . 978-1-884800-73-3 .
• Book: An Undertaking . January 2005. Haven Street Press. 978-0-9767012-1-7 .
• Book: Feeding the Fire. November 2001. registration. Jeffrey Harrison.. Sarabande Books. 978-1-889330-64-8 .
• Book: Signs of Arrival . registration . October 1996. Copper Beech Press. 978-0-914278-71-9 .
• Book: The Singing Underneath . May 1988 . E.P. Dutton . 978-0-525-24640-4 .

Honors and awards

• The Singing Underneath selected by James Merrill for the National Poetry Series,
• 1999 Guggenheim Fellowship^[6]
• 1995 Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship
• National Endowment for the Arts
• two Pushcart Prizes
• 1988-1989 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship
• Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets.
• Reflection on the Vietnam War Memorial

External links

• Author's website
• Incomplete Knowledge . AGNI. 2002. 55.
• Lord, Deliver Us This Affliction. AGNI. 2002. 56.
• To Kenneth Koch . AGNI. 2004. 59 .
• Visitation. American Life in Poetry: Column 115. 28 May 2022. Poetry Foundation.
• Ploughshares > Authors > Jeffrey Harrison

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2022-01-17. Jeffrey Harrison. 2022-01-17. Poetry Foundation. en.
2. Web site: Columbia College Today. 2022-01-17. www.college.columbia.edu.
3. Web site: The Waywiser Press > Jeffrey Harrison . 2010-02-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20091202071158/http://waywiser-press.com/poetry.html#jeffreyharrison . 2009-12-02 . dead .
4. Web site: Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing . 2009-06-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081120105049/http://www.usm.maine.edu/stonecoastmfa/faculty/harrison.html . 2008-11-20 . dead .
5. Web site: Jeffrey Harrison . 26 September 1984 .
6. Web site: Jeffrey W. Harrison - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . 2010-01-11 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110603232949/http://www.gf.org/fellows/6277-jeffrey-w-harrison . 2011-06-03 . dead .