Jeffrey Harrison’s fifth full-length book of poetry, Into Daylight, was published by Tupelo Press in April 2014 as the winner of the Dorset Prize and was a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award in 2015. More recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Kenyon Review, The New Republic, The Yale Review, Best American Poetry, The New York Times Magazine, The Hudson Review, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. jeffreyharrisonpoet.com.
Poetry
Fall 2014
Politics of the Dead
1. When we opened his “Bye-bye File,” we found, among the bank codes, passwords, insurance information, power of attorney, and living will, a dozen or so right-wing articles our father […]
Poetry
Winter 1999
Horseshoe Contest
East Woodstock, Connecticut Fourth of July After the parade of tractors and fire trucks, old cars and makeshift floats, after speeches by the minister and selectman, after the cakewalk and […]
Poetry
Winter 1999
Renewing My Passport
It’s only natural, isn’t it, that after moving into our first house and as the due date of our second child approaches, I’ve become obsessed with the idea of travel: […]
Poetry
Summer 1996
Foreshadowing
Two days before I left for Mexicoto see the eclipse, we watched a litmus stripturn blue, and knew you were pregnant. Sunlight brightened the apartment all morning,then slipped away as […]
Poetry
Summer 1996
Household Spirits
Halfway to heaven, high up on a pole, and the pole planted firmly in the earth, the martin house in my grandparents' backyard came back to me on the earth's […]
Jeffrey Harrison
Jeffrey Harrison’s fifth full-length book of poetry, Into Daylight, was published by Tupelo Press in April 2014 as the winner of the Dorset Prize. More recent work has appeared or […]