Joseph Harrison (1957–2024) was an American poet and editor.
Harrison was born in Richmond, Virginia, and grew up there and in 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 was a Senior American Editor for Waywiser Press. He lived in Baltimore.
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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