Education
He is currently on the faculty of the Stonecoast Master of Fine Arts Program at the University of Southern Maine.
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Jeffrey Harrison
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His most recent poetry collection is The Names of Things: New & Selected Poems (The Wayweiser Press, 2006). His poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, The Yale Review, Poets of the New Century. His honors include Pushcart Prizes, Guggenheim,, and Amy Lowell Traveling fellowships.
He has taught at George Washington University, Phillips Academy, and College of the Holy Cross.
He lives in Dover, Massachusetts. lieutenant’s thrilling to read an entire book of poems written with such pleasure and gusto.
Harrison writes with remarkable confidence about a range of ordinary things—salt, rowing a boat, discarded books, a stinking pond—and he gets more out of his subjects than seems possible. Ultimately, in Harrison’s poems, when the gaze shifts away from the safety of what is known, a different kind of comprehension comes into focus.
Even in grief, his work moves irresistibly toward inquiry, full of yearning and thus, the appetite for life.
The tenacious scrutiny and wonder of questions in this book are Harrison’s most potent homage.
Achievements
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The Singing Underneath selected by James Merrill for the National Poetry Series, 1999 Guggenheim Fellowship 1995 Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship National Endowment for the Arts two Pushcart Prizes 1988-1989 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets. Reflection on the Vietnam War Memorial.
