Merrill Fellow, Jeffrey Harrison, to read at Bank Square Books (1)

Please join us at Bank Square Books for a reading by James Merrill Fellow, Jeffrey Harrison.

Jeffrey is the author of seven books of poetry, beginning with The Singing

Underneath, selected by James Merrill for the National Poetry Series in 1987, and

including Feeding the Fire, winner of the Sheila Motton Award from the New

England Poetry Club, Incomplete Knowledge, runner-up for the Poets’ Prize, Into

Daylight, winner of the Dorset Prize, and Between Lakes, chosen as a 2021 Must-Read

Book by the Massachusetts Center for the Book. He has received fellowships from the

Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Bogliasco

Foundation, among other honors. His poems have appeared multiple times in Best

American Poetry and the Pushcart Prize volumes; been translated into Bulgarian, Italian,

Norwegian, and Portuguese; and been set to music by several composers and performed

at the National Opera Center, the Boston Athenaeum, and other venues. His essay “The

Story of a Box,” about Marcel Duchamp and his family (first published in The Common),

was listed as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2024. He lives in Massachusetts.

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