Harry Humes

Harry Humes (June 5, 1935 – April 4, 2025) was an American poet, short-story writer, academic and editor.

Early life and education Humes was born on June 5, 1935, in Girardville, Pennsylvania. He joined the United States 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.

Career Humes taught at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania from 1968 to 1999.

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.

Death Humes died on April 4, 2025, at the age of 89.

Awards Devins Award, from the University of Missouri Press Theodore Roethke Poetry Prize, Poetry Northwest 1998 National Poetry Series, for Butterfly Effect 1990 National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grants 2007 Keystone Chapbook Competition, for “Underground Singing”

Works Man with a Yellow Pail , Greensboro Review, Spring 2005] Flocking , Beloit Poetry Journal

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