Harry Humes Explained

Harry Humes
Birth Date:	5 June 1935
Birth Place:	Girardville, Pennsylvania

Harry Humes (born June 5, 1935, in Girardville, Pennsylvania) is an American poet, short-story writer, professor, and editor.

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 , Greensboro Review, Spring 2005]
• Flocking , Beloit Poetry Journal
• Book: Winter Weeds. Columbia. University of Missouri Press. 1983. 978-0-8262-0387-8 .
• Book: Robbing the Pillars. Adastra Press. 1984. 978-0-938566-20-5 .
• Book: Throwing away the compass: poems. Silverfish Review. 1986. 978-0-9610508-5-6 .
• Book: Ridge Music. Fayetteville. University of Arkansas Press. 1987. 978-0-938626-97-8 .
• Book: Way Winter Works. Fayetteville. University of Arkansas Press. 1990. 978-1-55728-160-9 .
• Book: Evening in the small park. Owl Creek Press. 1992. 978-0-937669-46-4 .
• Book: Bottomland. Fayetteville. University of Arkansas Press. 1995. 978-1-55728-380-1 .
• Book: Gorse Cottage Poems. Banshee Press. 1998. 978-1-928823-00-1 .
• Book: Butterfly Effect. Minneapolis. Milkweed Editions. 1999. 978-1-57131-408-6 .
• Book: August Evening with Trumpet. Fayetteville. University of Arkansas Press. 2004. 978-1-55728-774-8 .
• Book: Tent sleep: poems. Two Rivers Review. 2003. 978-0-9744584-1-0 . (chapbook)
• Book: Pennsylvania Coal Town: The Girardville Poems. Kutztown. Moonpenny Press. 2004. 978-0-9758517-0-8 . (chapbook)
• Book: Underground Singing. Ron Mohring. Seven Kitchens Press. 2007. 978-0-9820372-0-1 .

Anthologies

• Book: Micro fiction: an anthology of really short stories. registration. 26. Harry Humes.. The Cough. Jerome H. Stern. W. W. Norton & Company. 1996. 978-0-393-03968-9 .
• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=Tl9KNKvGjfkC&q=Harry+Humes&pg=PA104. The Butterfly Effect. The Best American Poetry 1997. James Tate . David Lehman. Simon and Schuster. 1997. 978-0-684-81452-0 .
• Book: Vital signs: contemporary American poetry from the university presses. registration. 116. Harry Humes.. The Man Who Carves Whales. Ronald Wallace. University of Wisconsin Press. 1989. 978-0-299-12160-0 .

External links

• News: Harry Humes' Girardville Poems. Spring 2005. Schuylkill Living. dead. https://archive.today/20080513230705/http://www.schuylkillliving.com/archives/spring2005.html. 2008-05-13.

Notes and References

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2. Web site: Harry Humes . 2009-09-16 . 2009-05-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090529074440/http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Humes__Harry.html . dead .
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