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Jeffrey W. Harrison (b. Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American poet. Born in Cincinnati, he was educated at Columbia University, where he studied with Kenneth Koch and David Shapiro. [1] [2] His most recent poetry collection is Into Daylight (Tupelo Press 2014), which follows The Names of Things: New & Selected Poems (The Waywiser Press, 2006). [3] His poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines, including The New Republic , The New Yorker , The Paris Review , Poetry , The Yale Review , Poets of the New Century. His honors include Pushcart Prizes, Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Arts, and Amy Lowell Traveling fellowships. He has taught at George Washington University, Phillips Academy, and College of the Holy Cross. He is currently on the faculty of the Stonecoast MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine. [4] He lives in Dover, Massachusetts. [5]

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  2. "Columbia College Today". www.college.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2022-01-17.
  3. "The Waywiser Press > Jeffrey Harrison". Archived from the original on 2009-12-02. Retrieved 2010-02-17.
  4. "Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing". Archived from the original on 2008-11-20. Retrieved 2009-06-02.
  5. "Jeffrey Harrison". 26 September 1984.
  6. "Jeffrey W. Harrison - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Archived from the original on 2011-06-03. Retrieved 2010-01-11.