Harry Humes (born June 5, 1935 Girardville, Pennsylvania) is an American Poet, Short Story Writer, Professor, and Editor.
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.
His work has appeared in West Branch, Antaeus, Gettysburg Review, Massachusetts Review, Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, Tar River Poetry, and 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.
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”
"Man with a Yellow Pail", Greensboro Review, Spring 2005
"Flocking", Beloit Poetry Journal
Winter Weeds. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. 1983. ISBN 978-0-8262-0387-8.
Robbing the Pillars. Adastra Press. 1984. ISBN 978-0-938566-20-5.
Throwing away the compass: poems. Silverfish Review. 1986. ISBN 978-0-9610508-5-6.
Ridge Music. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press. 1987. ISBN 978-0-938626-97-8.
Way Winter Works. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press. 1990. ISBN 978-1-55728-160-9.
Evening in the small park. Owl Creek Press. 1992. ISBN 978-0-937669-46-4.
Bottomland. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press. 1995. ISBN 978-1-55728-380-1.
Gorse Cottage Poems. Banshee Press. 1998. ISBN 978-1-928823-00-1.
Butterfly Effect. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions. 1999. ISBN 978-1-57131-408-6.
August Evening with Trumpet. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press. 2004. ISBN 978-1-55728-774-8.
Tent sleep: poems. Two Rivers Review. 2003. ISBN 978-0-9744584-1-0. (chapbook)
Pennsylvania Coal Town: The Girardville Poems. Kutztown: Moonpenny Press. 2004. ISBN 978-0-9758517-0-8. (chapbook)
Ron Mohring, ed. (2007). Underground Singing. Seven Kitchens Press. ISBN 978-0-9820372-0-1.
Jerome H. Stern, ed. (1996). "The Cough". Micro fiction: an anthology of really short stories. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-03968-9.
James Tate, David Lehman, eds. (1997). "The Butterfly Effect". The Best American Poetry 1997. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-684-81452-0. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)
Ronald Wallace, ed. (1989). "The Man Who Carves Whales". Vital signs: contemporary American poetry from the university presses. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-299-12160-0.
