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
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
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External links
Author's website
Ploughshares > Authors > Jeffrey Harrison
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