Joseph Harrison

Joseph Harrison (1957–2024) is an American poet and editor.

Harrison was born in Richmond, Virginia, and grew up there and in Alabama. He graduated from Yale University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1979, and from Johns Hopkins University with a Master of Arts degree in 1986. He was a Senior American Editor for Waywiser Press. He lived in Baltimore.

Awards 2005 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters 2009 Guggenheim Fellow

Works Someone Else’s Name Zoo Press, 2003, ; Waywiser Press, 2007 Identity Theft, Waywiser Press, 2008, Shakespeare's Horse, Waywiser Press, 2015.

Anthologies The Best American Poetry 1998, Editors John Hollander, David Lehman, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998, "Air Larry", 180 More Extraordinary Poems for Every Day, Editor Billy Collins, Random House, Inc., 2005, Poetry: a pocket anthology, Editor R. S. Gwynn, Longman, 2002, The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets, Editor David Yezzi, Swallow Press, 2009,