Oct
7
10:30pm
Jeffrey Harrison Between Lakes
By The Mercantile Library
Join us for an evening of poetry with Jeffrey Harrison, as he reads from and discusses his latest book of poems, Between Lakes.
Between Lakes has been described as "deceptive, beautifully made, uncanny new poems have a calm surface and a roiling undertow. How quietly and obsessively he probes and captures those singular moments—fragile, vanishing, too blue to last—that deepen into the unknown."
Cincinnati native Jeffrey Harrison is the author of six full-length books of poetry—The Singing Underneath (1988), selected by James Merrill for the National Poetry Series, Signs of Arrival (1996), Feeding the Fire (2001), winner of the Sheila Motton Prize from the New England Poetry Club, Incomplete Knowledge (2006), runner-up for the Poets’ Prize, Into Daylight, published in 2014 by Tupelo Press as the winner of the Dorset Prize. A selection of early poems, The Names of Things, was published in 2006 by The Waywiser Press in the U.K.
This program is available both in-person and virtually. It is free & open to the public. In-person reservations required via ticketing HERE.
6 pm in-person reception/6:30 pm program
Copies of Between Lakes will be available for sale and signing at the event, or online HERE, courtesy of Joseph-Beth Cincinnati.
More about the author:
Jeffrey Harrison is a recipient of Guggenheim and NEA Fellowships, as well as other honors, and his poems have appeared widely in magazines and journals, in Best American Poetry, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, Poets of the New Century, The Twentieth Century in Poetry, and other anthologies, and been featured on The Writer’s Almanac, American Life in Poetry, Poetry Daily, and other online and media venues. He has taught at a number of colleges and universities, as well as at Phillips Academy, where he was Writer-in-Residence, and has visited many high schools to read from his work and discuss poetry with students. He lives in Massachusetts.
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