Harry Youtt

Harry Youtt is a long-time Plain-speech Resonance poet. He’s the author of several collections of poetry, including What My Father Didn’t Know I Learned From Him, I’ll Always Be from Lorain, Getting Through, Elderverses, and Outbound for Elsewhere. His collection: Finbarr Visits the Pacific, is forthcoming later in 2017. In the poetry he writes, his goal is to communicate in resonant language that flows naturally. He believes the highest purpose of poetry is to make itself understood by as many as possible. But he also believes that most poetry should be looked at, again and again, the way you’d go back to a good photograph, to make sure you’ve seen and sensed everything that was there when the picture got taken.

With his wife, Judith Prager, Harry has been teaching workshops in fiction and narrative non-fiction writing in the UCLA (Ext.) Writers’ Program since 1990. He also occasionally conducts poetry workshops in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Ireland. His poetry is published in numerous anthologies and journals, where it has garnered a couple of national awards and several Pushcart Prize nominations.

He also writes and speaks about poetry, consciousness and American Culture in literary publications and at international conferences.

He has done readings of his own work in numerous locations throughout the United States and in Ireland, England, and Wales.