Today at 6:00pm in the College of Liberal Arts building, room 3150, the Towson Literary Reading Series welcomes Joseph Harrison, author of Someone Else’s Name (2003), Identity Theft (2008), and Shakespeare’s Horse (2015), all published by Waywiser Press. Some of Harrison’s early poems are anthologized in The Fly in the Ointment (20th anniversary edition, Syllabic Press, 2014). His honors include an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a fellowship in poetry from the Guggenheim Foundation. Harrison is the Senior American Editor for Waywiser Press, Contest Coordinator for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, and the editor of The Hecht Prize Anthology (Waywiser, 2011).
For more information about the Towson Literary Reading Series, contact Michael Downs at mdowns@towson.edu or Leslie Harrison at lharrison@towson.edu.
