Joseph Harrison (poet)
Joseph Harrison is an American poet and editor.
Harrison was born in Richmond, Virginia, and grew up there and in 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 was a Senior American Editor for Waywiser Press. He lived in Baltimore.
Awards
- 2005 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
- 2009 Guggenheim Fellow
Works
Someone Else’s Name Zoo Press, 2003, ; Waywiser Press, 2007 Identity Theft, Waywiser Press, 2008, Shakespeare's Horse, Waywiser Press, 2015.Anthologies
The Best American Poetry 1998, Editors John Hollander, David Lehman, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998,- , 180 More Extraordinary Poems for Every Day, Editor Billy Collins, Random House, Inc., 2005, Poetry: a pocket anthology, Editor R. S. Gwynn, Longman, 2002, The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets, Editor David Yezzi, Swallow Press, 2009,