Joseph Harrison (born 1957 Richmond, Virginia) is an American poet, and editor.
He grew up in Virginia and Alabama. He graduated from Yale University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1979, and from Johns Hopkins University with a Master of Arts degree in 1986. He is Senior American Editor for Waywiser Press.[1] He lives in Baltimore.
Awards edit
- 2005 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
- 2009 Guggenheim Fellow[2]
Works edit
- Someone Else’s Name Zoo Press, 2003, ISBN 9781932023114; Waywiser Press, 2007 ISBN 978-1-904130-06-2
- Identity Theft, Waywiser Press, 2008, ISBN 978-1-904130-27-7
- Shakespeare's Horse, Waywiser Press, 2015.
Anthologies edit
- The Best American Poetry 1998, Editors John Hollander, David Lehman, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998, ISBN 978-0-684-81453-7
- "Air Larry", 180 More Extraordinary Poems for Every Day, Editor Billy Collins, Random House, Inc., 2005, ISBN 978-0-8129-7296-2
- Poetry: a pocket anthology, Editor R. S. Gwynn, Longman, 2002, ISBN 978-0-321-08720-1 [3]
- The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets, Editor David Yezzi, Swallow Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8040-1121-1
References edit
- ^ "About the Waywiser Press". Archived from the original on 2009-10-02. Retrieved 2009-09-13.
- ^ "Joseph Harrison - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Archived from the original on 2009-06-11. Retrieved 2010-05-12.
- ^ Gwynn, R. S. (July 2001). Poetry: A Pocket Anthology. Longman. ISBN 9780321087201.
Joseph Harrison penguin.