About
A finalist for the National Poetry Series Award, the Sexton Prize for Poetry, the Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize and the Paul Nemser Book Prize, Joseph Harms is the author of the poetry collections Bel, Nous, Goety, Youel and Funest, which have been collected in Taps (Todos Contentos & Yo También Press); as well as the novels Ades, Baal, Cant and Wyrd, which have been collected in Evil (Expat Press). He is currently at work on a collection of poetry entitled Nihil, a centonical epic written in heptameter about nothingness and its twin life. Harms’ work has appeared in numerous literary journals, including Boulevard, The Alaska Quarterly Review, The North American Review, The International Poetry Review, Crazyhorse, The Opiate and Bayou Magazine. He holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers’ Program.