Joseph Harrison (poet)

Joseph Harrison (1957–2024) is an American poet and editor.

Joseph Harrison
Born	1957 (age 68–69) Richmond, Virginia, U.S.
Occupation	Poet editor
Education	Yale University (BA) Johns Hopkins University (MA)

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.

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