Joseph Harrison (poet)

Joseph Harrison (born 1957 Richmond, Virginia) is an American poet, and editor.

He grew up in Virginia and Alabama. He graduated from Yale University with a Bachelor's of Art degree in 1979, and from Johns Hopkins University with a Masters of Art degree in 1986.^[1] He is Senior American Editor for Waywiser Press.^[2] He lives in Baltimore.

Awards

• 2005 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
• 2009 Guggenheim Fellow^[3]

Works

• Someone Else’s Name Zoo Press, 2003, ISBN 9781932023114; Waywiser Press, 2007 ISBN 9781904130062
• Identity Theft, Waywiser Press, 2008, ISBN 9781904130277

Anthologies

• The Best American Poetry 1998, Editors John Hollander, David Lehman, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998, ISBN 9780684814537
• "Air Larry", 180 More Extraordinary Poems for Every Day, Editor Billy Collins, Random House, Inc., 2005, ISBN 9780812972962
• Poetry: a pocket anthology, Editor R. S. Gwynn, Longman, 2002, ISBN 9780321087201 ^[4]
• The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets, Editor David Yezzi, Swallow Press, 2009, ISBN 9780804011211

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