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'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 