Jeffrey Harrison Reads at Hotel Marlowe

Wednesday February 6, 2008
6:15 PM to 7:00 PM
During the Hotel Marlowe's Wine Hour, which begins at 5:00 PM

Jeffrey Harrison is the author of four full-length books of poetry—The Singing Underneath (1988), selected by James Merrill for the National Poetry Series; Signs of Arrival (1996); Feeding the Fire (Sarabande Books, 2001); and Incomplete Knowledge (Four Way Books, 2006)—as well as The Names of Things: New and Selected Poems, (Waywiser Press, U.K., 2006). His poems have appeared in many magazines and anthologies including The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, The Yale Review, and Poets of the New Century. Harrison has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and has been awarded two Pushcart Prizes. He taught at George Washington University, College of the Holy Cross, and Phillips Academy, and currently is a faculty member of the Stonecoast MFA Program, University of Southern Maine.

Porter Square Books will be selling books at this reading.

The Hotel Marlowe is located at 25 Edwin H. Land Boulevard, Cambridge. Inexpensive parking is available in the Cambridgeside Galleria garage with direct entry into the hotel from Levels A and C. The hotel is closest to the Lechmere T-stop, and is within walking distance of Charles and Kendall Square.

For more information call 617-824-8820 or e-mail pen_ne@lesley.edu