Jeffrey Harrison

Jeffrey Harrison is the author of six books of poetry, including, most recently, Between Lakes (Four Way Books, 2020), selected as a 2021 Must-Read Book by the Massachusetts Center for the Book, and Into Daylight (Tupelo Press, 2014), winner of the Dorset Prize. A former NEA, Guggenheim, and Bogliasco Fellow, his poems have appeared widely in magazines and anthologies, including Best American Poetry and the Pushcart Prize volumes. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Paris Review, The Threepenny Review, The Yale Review, The Hudson Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Southern Review, Poem-a-Day, and elsewhere. His essay “The Story of a Box,” about Marcel Duchamp and his family, was recently published in The Common.

  • The Afterlife of Fish and Opossum

    Whenever we caught fish when we were boys,
  • Before Things Got Bad

    After the mayor closed all the parks
  • Scene from a Photograph in a Dream

    What was I doing in my childhood room again?
  • SCENE FROM A PHOTOGRAPH IN A DREAM

    What was I doing in my childhood room again?
  • THINNING THE SPRUCES

    I’ve become ruthless with the spruces
  • Poem

    I’m going to pretend I’m a painter and just