Merrill Fellow, Jeffrey Harrison, to read with Introduction by Rick Koster
Schedule
Tue May 12 2026 at 05:00 pm to 06:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Bank Square Books | Groton, CT
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Please join us at Bank Square Books for a reading by James Merrill Fellow, Jeffrey Harrison. About Jeffrey:
Jeffrey Harrison 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.
About Rick:
Rick Koster spent 14 years as a rock musician in his native Texas. He’s the author of four published books — individually and collectively among the worst-selling titles in history — and was a longtime arts reporter/columnist at The Day newspaper in New London, CT.
RSVP encouraged, but not required to attend.
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