Renowned Poet Reads at Rivers
Accomplished poet Jeffrey Harrison held a reading of his poetry at a special assembly held at Rivers on October 21.
Accomplished poet Jeffrey Harrison held a reading of his poetry at a special assembly held at Rivers on October 21. Harrison, who is the brother of Rivers art teacher Jeremy Harrison, spoke to students and faculty about his work and read selected poems.
Harrison is the author of three books of poetry, The Singing Underneath, which was selected by James Merrill for the National Poetry Series, Signs of Arrival, and most recently, Feeding the Fire.
After reading selected poems at the assembly, Harrison also visited individual English classes throughout the day to talk about his craft and discuss some of his poems with students.
An acclaimed poet, Harrison has received a Guggenheim fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, two Pushcart Prizes, a Bread Loaf fellowship, the Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Scholarship, and the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, The Kenyon Review, The Paris Review, and The Yale Review, among many others.
In addition to writing, Harrison has worked in the classroom as well. He has taught at the Frost Place in Franconia, N.H., regularly for the last decade. He served as the Roger Murray Writer-in-Residence for three years at Phillips Academy in Andover. Harrison has taught at several universities and is currently teaching in the Stone Post MFA program at The University of Southern Maine.
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Harrison is the author of three books of poetry, The Singing Underneath, which was selected by James Merrill for the National Poetry Series, Signs of Arrival, and most recently, Feeding the Fire.
After reading selected poems at the assembly, Harrison also visited individual English classes throughout the day to talk about his craft and discuss some of his poems with students.
An acclaimed poet, Harrison has received a Guggenheim fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, two Pushcart Prizes, a Bread Loaf fellowship, the Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Scholarship, and the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, The Kenyon Review, The Paris Review, and The Yale Review, among many others.
In addition to writing, Harrison has worked in the classroom as well. He has taught at the Frost Place in Franconia, N.H., regularly for the last decade. He served as the Roger Murray Writer-in-Residence for three years at Phillips Academy in Andover. Harrison has taught at several universities and is currently teaching in the Stone Post MFA program at The University of Southern Maine.
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