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 →
Flat Ink Magazine published my poem "Damnation Does Not Impress Us" in their October 2025 issue #3! This was a fun one to play with--some good college memories attached to it. The whole issue is fantastic, so be sure to give it a read!
I'm thrilled to have my poem "Casting About for Images of Comfort, I Remember" appear in vol. 29 issue 4 of Eclectica Magazine! This poem is special to me, so I'm grateful the editorial team thought their readers would enjoy it!
Sheila-Na-Gig online is a gorgeous literary journal I've long admired, so I am really proud to have my poem "The Friendship of Older Women" about my friendship with Dr. Robin Mitchell in the latest issue. The entirety of volume 10.1 is a delight of talent, so be sure to visit the other writers in the... Continue Reading →
Excited to have a new poem, "Nosophobia," in the latest issue of the fantastic MacQueen's Quinterly (#30)! I hope you'll take a minute to read it. The poem is emblematic of a recent turn in my work where I am trying to use nature more and the ever-present "I" just a bit less as a... Continue Reading →
I am especially proud to have my prose poem "Anaphora of Regrets" published in the most recent Gone Lawn. It's a relatively new poem, and I owe it to Professor Marlon Fick's 'write an anaphora' prompt from his graduate poetry workshop. I hope you have a moment to read it!
I am very proud to have my poem "What You Don't Learn as a New York Catholic" in the August 22. 2025 issue 2 of The Orange Rose. I come back to Kentucky often in my writing, this poem is no exception.
I have two new poems in Arcturus: A Magazine of New Persepectives, presented by the Chicago Review of Books! You can now read "Animalia" and "To Be Read While Listening to Tanaka’s “Korobeiniki”" there. I'm very proud that the generous Editor Sara Cutaia and team wanted to share my work with their readers!
I'm pretty puffed up that Screen Door Review has accepted my poems "Aubade with Hound" (a sonnet) and "When I Say I Love You This Much I Mean"! Another fantastic literary outlet that I've been a fan of for long time that I'm really proud to be included in. I studied under some fantastic poets... Continue Reading →
I am pretty beside myself that ONE ART: A Journal of Poetry published my poem "For the Friend Who Died Before We Could Reconcile" today. I've had an old college friend on my mind a lot lately. Shara was that friend, part of my sister-group, the person I was closer to than anyone, together from... Continue Reading →
Colleen S. Harris 