Jeffrey Harrison

Jeffrey W. Harrison is an American poet.

Life
Harrison was born in Cincinnati, Ohio.

He has taught at George Washington University, Phillips Academy, and College of the Holy Cross. He is currently on the faculty of the Stonecoast MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine.

His poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, The Yale Review, and Poets of the New Century. He lives in Dover, Massachusetts.

Writing
Philip Levine: "It’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."

Melanie Drane, Foreword: "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."

Recognition
His honors include Pushcart Prizes, Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Arts, and Amy Lowell Traveling fellowships.

Awards

 * The Singing Underneath selected by James Merrill for the National Poetry Series,
 * 1999 Guggenheim 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.

Publications
Full-Length Poetry Collections