Joseph Harrington is the author of Things Come On: an amneoir (Wesleyan Univ. Press 2011), a mixed-genre work relating the twinned narratives of the Watergate scandal and his mother's cancer; it was a Rumpus magazine Poetry Book Club selection. He is also the author of the chapbook Earth Day Suite (Beard of Bees 2010) and the critical work Poetry and the Public (Wesleyan 2002). His creative work also has appeared in Hotel Amerika, No Tell Motel, 1913, BathHouse, Otoliths, Fact-Simile, and Tarpaulin Sky, among others. He is a Professor of English at the University of Kansas in Lawrence.

Asked about his influences, Mr. Harrington replied, "Influences? Hmm - there are a lot. Chief among them, perhaps, are Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's book Dictee; the works of Susan Howe; Paterson, by William Carlos Williams; The Maximus Poems of Charles Olson; The Book of Jon, by Eleni Sikelianos; My Life, by Lyn Hejinian; Book of the Dead, by Muriel Rukeyser."

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Things Come On (an amneoir). Wesleyan Poetry Series. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan Univ. Press, 2011

Earth Day Suite (poetry e-chapbook) Chicago: Beard of Bees Press, 2010Poetry and the Public: The Social Form of Modern U.S. Poetics Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan Univ. Press, 2002

Poems, Reviews, and Other Publications [Follow the links]:

• A Conversation Between Joseph Harrington and Kathleen Ossip
• Memory Cards: 2010-2011 Series
• Versal
• Messed-Up Nature Poem
• Out of Office Reply: Why Do You Seek the Living Among the Dead?
  
• Genre and Power
• earth day suite
• Scrapbooks Without Scraps
• The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Joseph Harrington
• Collagist Interview: Joseph Harrington
• Lovely, Raspberry 
• The History of Sexuality
• Parrots of Kansas
• Variations on a Theme by Patricia Carrigan (Dwarf Mash)
• Theses: Lines/Code 6: List on the Road to
• earth day suite
  
• 5:03 pm CST, 12/21
• Eve Even Christmas
• Nursing Slaughter Spirit
  
• Essay on the Allegorical Uses of Syntax
• Review of Key Bridge
  
• Nature Writing’ as the Nature of Writing
• Lawrence [introduction and guest editor]
  
• Theses: Lines/Code: 1 & 2

An excerpt from ( Things Come On) can be found here: http://www.cricketonlinereview.com/vol5no1/harrington1.php

An excerpt from "No Soap" can be found here: http://www.dzancbooks.org/the-collagist/from-no-soap.html

• Pushcart Prize Nominee, 2011
• Hall Center for the Humanities Creative Work Fellow, Univ. of Kansas, 2010
• Finalist, Howard Foundation Fellowship, 2010
• Walt Whitman Chair in American Culture Studies, Fulbright Distinguished Chairs Program, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, 2005
• Hall Center for the Humanities Research Fellow, Univ. of Kansas, 2000
• Mayers Fellow, Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif., 1999
• Mortar Board Outstanding Educator Award, Univ. of Kansas, 1998

Joseph Harrington
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