Clarinda Harriss
Clarinda
Harriss is a professor of English at Towson University, where
she teaches poetry, editing, and poetic structure. Her most
recent poetry collection, AIR TRAVEL, came out from Half Moon
Editions (NY) in 2005, preceding by WHEN DIVAS DANCE, ed. Chezia
Thompson-Cager (Maisonneuve Press, 2004), a collection of poems
by three women including herself. In 2004, PAGITICA Magazine
awarded her poem “Adam Forgets” first place in its poetry
competition, and CARVE Magazine awarded her short story, “Bone
to Bone,” second place in its annual Raymond Carver Fiction
Contest. Harriss edits and directs BrickHouse Books, Inc.,
Maryland’s oldest literary press, and works with writers in
various prisons.
Books published
as sole author:
THE BONE TREE
(NPS, Balto., 1971)
THE NIGHT
PARROT (Salmon Publishing, Galway, 1989)
LICENSE
RENEWAL FOR THE BLIND (Cooper House, Oklahoma, 1991)
AIR TRAVEL
(Half Moon Editions, NY, 2005)
Books
co-authored:
THE PEARL: a
translation from Middle to Modern English (with Dr. Sara deFord
et al, Crofts Classics, NY, 1967)
FORMS OF
VERSE: BRITISH AND AMERICAN (with Dr. Sara deFord,
Appleton-Century-Crofts, NY, 1971)
WHEN DIVAS
DANCE (ed. Chezia Thompson-Cager; with Thompson-Cager and Kendra
Kopelke), 2004
Clarinda
Harriss' poems, essays, and fiction appear regularly in such
periodicals as POETRY, GENRE, EPOCH, and STORY, as well as
several newspapers and and various quarterly reviews. She
admires and is published in several e-publications, notably
CARVE, GLOSS, and BRANCHES. Her work is featured in such
anthologies as OH TASTE AND SEE, TOUCHING FIRE, THE BEST OF
CARVE, WEAVINGS, and THE TIME OF OUR LIVES.
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Annual
Meeting of the Mencken Society
Headline Speaker:
Clarinda Harriss
Enoch Pratt Central
Library - Wheeler Auditorium
September 10, 2005 |
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