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 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, ISBN 9781932023114; Waywiser Press, 2007 ISBN 978-1-904130-06-2
• Identity Theft, Waywiser Press, 2008, ISBN 978-1-904130-27-7
• Shakespeare's Horse, Waywiser Press, 2015.

Anthologies

• The Best American Poetry 1998, Editors John Hollander, David Lehman, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998, ISBN 978-0-684-81453-7
• "Air Larry", 180 More Extraordinary Poems for Every Day, Editor Billy Collins, Random House, Inc., 2005, ISBN 978-0-8129-7296-2
• Poetry: a pocket anthology, Editor R. S. Gwynn, Longman, 2002, ISBN 978-0-321-08720-1
• The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets, Editor David Yezzi, Swallow Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8040-1121-1