Harry Humes (born June 5, 1935, in Girardville, Pennsylvania) is an American poet, short-story writer, professor, and editor.
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Life
He joined the 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. He taught at Kutztown University, from 1968 to 1999.[1]
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.[2]
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” [3]
Works
- Man with a Yellow Pail Archived 2009-06-10 at the Wayback Machine, Greensboro Review, Spring 2005]
- Flocking Archived 2010-07-15 at the Wayback Machine, Beloit Poetry Journal
- Winter Weeds. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. 1983. ISBN 978-0-8262-0387-8.
- Robbing the Pillars. Adastra Press. 1984. ISBN 978-0-938566-20-5.
- Throwing away the compass: poems. Silverfish Review. 1986. ISBN 978-0-9610508-5-6.
- Ridge Music. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press. 1987. ISBN 978-0-938626-97-8.
- Way Winter Works. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press. 1990. ISBN 978-1-55728-160-9.
- Evening in the small park. Owl Creek Press. 1992. ISBN 978-0-937669-46-4.
- Bottomland. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press. 1995. ISBN 978-1-55728-380-1.
- Gorse Cottage Poems. Banshee Press. 1998. ISBN 978-1-928823-00-1.
- Butterfly Effect. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions. 1999. ISBN 978-1-57131-408-6.
- August Evening with Trumpet. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press. 2004. ISBN 978-1-55728-774-8.
- Tent sleep: poems. Two Rivers Review. 2003. ISBN 978-0-9744584-1-0. (chapbook)
- Pennsylvania Coal Town: The Girardville Poems. Kutztown: Moonpenny Press. 2004. ISBN 978-0-9758517-0-8. (chapbook)
- Ron Mohring, ed. (2007). Underground Singing. Seven Kitchens Press. ISBN 978-0-9820372-0-1.
Anthologies
- Jerome H. Stern, ed. (1996). "The Cough". Micro fiction: an anthology of really short stories. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 26. ISBN 978-0-393-03968-9.
Harry Humes.
- James Tate; David Lehman, eds. (1997). "The Butterfly Effect". The Best American Poetry 1997. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-684-81452-0.
- Ronald Wallace, ed. (1989). "The Man Who Carves Whales". Vital signs: contemporary American poetry from the university presses. University of Wisconsin Press. p. 116. ISBN 978-0-299-12160-0.
Harry Humes.
References
External links
- "Harry Humes' Girardville Poems". Schuylkill Living. Spring 2005. Archived from the original on 2008-05-13.
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