Joseph Harrison (poet)

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

• 2005 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
• 2009 Guggenheim Fellow^[2]

Works

• 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

• 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

1. http://waywiser-press.com/press.html
2. http://www.gf.org/fellows/16464-joseph-harrison
3. https://books.google.com/books?id=bXyZtORmxsgC&dq=Joseph+Harrison+penguin&source=gbs_book_other_versions

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