Joseph Harrison (poet)
Joseph Harrison 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. He lives 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,
