Jeffrey Harrison

Jeffrey Harrison is the author of six full-length books of poetry, most recently BETWEEN LAKES, published by Four Way Books in September 2020, and including INTO DAYLIGHT, which won the Dorset Prize and was published by Tupelo Press in 2014; INCOMPLETE KNOWLEDGE (2006), a runner-up for the Poets’ Prize; FEEDING THE FIRE (2001), winner of the Sheila Motton Award from the New England Poetry Club; and THE SINGING UNDERNEATH, which was selected by James Merrill for the National Poetry Series in 1987. A volume of his selected early poems, THE NAMES OF THINGS, was published by the Waywiser Press in 2006. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Bogliasco Foundation, among other honors. His poems have appeared widely in magazines and journals, as well as in BEST AMERICAN POETRY, THE PUSHCART PRIZE volumes, Poets of the New Century, The Twentieth Century in Poetry, and other anthologies, and been featured regularly on The Writer’s Almanac, American Life in Poetry, Poetry Daily, and other online or media venues. He lives in Massachusetts and can also be found at jeffreyharrisonpoet.com.