Harry Humes

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Harry Humes
Born (1935-06-05) June 5, 1935 (age 88)
Education
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  • Poet
  • short-story writer
  • professor
  • editor

Harry Humes (born June 5, 1935, in Girardville, Pennsylvania) is an American poet, short-story writer, professor, and editor.

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Life

He joined the army in 1958. He graduated from Bloomsburg State College in 1964, and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, with a Master of Fine Arts in 1967. He taught at Kutztown University, from 1968 to 1999. [1]

His work has appeared in West Branch , Antaeus , Gettysburg Review , Massachusetts Review , Poetry , Poetry Northwest , Prairie Schooner , Tar River Poetry , and The Virginia Quarterly Review . He also was editor of Yarrow and Stone Country Poetry Journal. His first poetry collection, Winter Weeds, was published in his 40s, in 1983. [2]

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