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Clarinda Harriss

Clarinda Harriss

Clarinda Harriss is a professor emerita of English at Towson University, She continues to serve as corporate president and editor-in-chief of BrickHouse Books, Inc., MD’s oldest literary press; to work with prison writers; to give free workshops at various venues; to boast two children and 5 grown-up grandchildren.  Her most recent poetry collection is Innumerable Moons, with illustrations by Peter Bruun; its theme is her recent 6 years of being the loving caretaker of an Alzheimer’s sufferer. (Source)

Poems by Clarinda Harriss

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The Tragedy of Hats by Clarinda Harriss

"See how we tip them, hold them prettily against the wind / or pull them off and mop our sweaty brows" — Clarinda Harriss
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Mistress by Clarinda Harriss

"Instead I’m the pet under / the table, nosing crotches, / begging scraps" — Clarinda Harriss