Marie Harris

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It is a special gift to be invited to link my words to the arts of the sculptor, the painter, the photographer, the musician. Here are some examples of these collaborations.

NHPR Interview with Peter Biello

December 31, 2019 Leave a Comment

Listen to Peter Biello talking to me about my new book, Desire Lines. NHPR interview link

Filed Under: Poetry, Projects & Performances

Singer/Songwriters

September 4, 2016 Leave a Comment

My brother, Basil, and I have collaborated over the years, mainly on songs written specially for the weddings of our siblings, children, nieces and nephews. This one has its roots in a legend. Lying in the shadows, a legend waits for the afternoon sun. On a summer evening, out of Mt. Hosmer’s face, comes the […]

Filed Under: Family histories, Music, Poetry, Projects & Performances, Words in Progress Tagged With: family histories, love poetry, marriage, poetry

My Brother’s Voice

September 3, 2016 Leave a Comment

Basil got news of his illness–Total Systems Atrophy–more than two years ago, and since then he has slowly been losing the functions of his body and his mind. I will write about my brother, but for the moment I want to celebrate him by making public all the songs I have that he’s written, collaborated […]

Filed Under: Family histories, Music, Projects & Performances, Words in Progress Tagged With: family histories

Mondays at Skimmilk Farm: The Documentary

February 11, 2016 Leave a Comment

Skimmilk Farm, an abandoned colonial-era dairy farm in Southern New Hampshire became the summer home of the late Boston/New Hampshire poet Jean Pedrick Kefferstan (1923-2006) and her family in the 1950s. In time it also became a Monday morning mecca for poets and writers for over 30 summers …

Filed Under: Projects & Performances Tagged With: Alice James Books, New Hampshire poets, poetry

Rockingham County Courthouse

January 28, 2016 Leave a Comment

Another Percent for Arts grant allowed me to collaborate with painter Katherine Doyle, putting words in her canvas depicting a tranquil mountain landscape. It  hangs in the reception area of the Rockingham County Courthouse. She wanted both her painting and the poem to impart a sense of calm in what is, for almost everyone who […]

Filed Under: Projects & Performances Tagged With: Projects & Performances, Public Art Projects

Barrington Community Playground

January 23, 2016 Leave a Comment

Local artist Diane St Jean illustrated my poem on a panel of the fence that surrounds our new playground. Night Swim in Scruton Pond Mars floats upside down in the midnight pond as though the lacquered sky tipped by our angle of vision let slide that one planet while the stars still depend on the […]

Filed Under: Projects & Performances Tagged With: Collaborations, Public Art Projects

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A Poet for Your Bookshelf, Classroom, or Library

Welcome! Come on in and browse through my books of poetry, anthologies I’ve edited and in which my poems appear, and some essays and articles on subjects ranging from blue water sailing to New England farm stays to birding. You can also find photos of my collaborations with painters, sculptors, photographers and musicians. Listen to audio clips of a sampling of my voiceover work.

As a poet, I perform and teach at colleges & universities throughout the country, and in residencies in elementary and high schools, libraries, writers’ workshops and retreats, and senior centers. Read More…

Words in Progress

Walking Song

WALKING SONG …reminding herself that she was only an elderly woman who had got up too early in the morning and journeyed too far, that the despair creeping over her was merely her despair, her personal weakness, and that even if she got a sunstroke and went mad the rest of the world would go […]

My Brother is Gone from Us

Basil Harris (pictured with sister Anne, summer 2016) He died today. Farewell, sweet singer.

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