Sorry-not-sorry about the all-caps of the headline--Broken Tribe Press chose my poetry manuscript The Discipline of Drowning as the winner of their 2025 poetry book award contest!!!! I am beyond over the moon that this book has found such a wonderful home. Please chair-dance with me if you're at your computer (or just wiggle/shimmy a... Continue Reading →
I am beside myself in celebration--Bottlecap Press has published my chapbook The Girl and the Gifts. With an arc of self-discovery and self-determination, this collection connects mythological themes with quotidian life--a Long Island girl compares her home life with an old Irish selkie legend, trees discuss how they know Daphne after her flight from Apollo,... Continue Reading →
I am proud and excited to announce that Toothache in the Bone is now available from boats against the current! You can purchase your copy on Amazon. I am incredibly proud to have this chapbook of poems out in the world, and grateful to my editor and cheerleader, McKenna Deen, for all the work to... Continue Reading →
I am just beside myself to announce that three of my personal favorite poems were just published in SoFloPoJo #37! You'll find "Nel Mezzo Del Cammin Di Nostra Vita," "A Brief Biology Lesson," and "On the Banks of the Cumberland" about midway down the page (a "find" command for my first name, Colleen, will get... Continue Reading →
I'm thrilled to have received a message from Black Springs Press Group today that my full-length poetry manuscript Tell the Bees has been longlisted for the International Beverly Prize for Literature! I am in the throes of marketing (if you can call it that) for my current forthcoming collection The Light Becomes Us (Main Street... Continue Reading →
I am thrilled to report that in addition to releasing my new full-length poetry collection The Light Becomes Us (Main Street Rag) this summer and anticipating a fine press treatment of another full-length collection, Babylon Songs (First Bite Press, forthcoming), the small press boats against the current has accepted my poetry chapbook Toothache in the... Continue Reading →
Colleen S. Harris 