Jeffrey Harrison

Jeffrey W. Harrison (b. Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American poet. Born in Cincinnati, he was educated at Columbia University, where he studied with Kenneth Koch and David Shapiro. His most recent poetry collection is Into Daylight (Tupelo Press 2014), which follows The Names of Things: New & Selected Poems (The Waywiser Press, 2006). 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. He lives in Dover, Massachusetts.

Published works

Full-Length Poetry Collections

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

Honors and awards

• The Singing Underneath selected by James Merrill for the National Poetry Series,
• 1999 Guggenheim Fellowship
• 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. 55. 2002.
• "Lord, Deliver Us This Affliction". AGNI. 56. 2002.
• "To Kenneth Koch". AGNI. 59. 2004.
• "Visitation". American Life in Poetry: Column 115. Poetry Foundation. 28 May 2022.
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