Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, University Library
External Links
Creative/Performing Interests
- Creative Writing
- Poetry
- African American Studies
Janice N. Harrington writes poetry and children's books. She has poems published or forthcoming in, among other journals, The African American Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Barrow Street, Beloit Poetry Journal, Black Renaissance / Renaissance Noire, Callaloo, Cimarron Review, Cincinnati Review, Copper Nickel, Crab Orchard Review, crazyhorse, FIELD, Harvard Review, Kenyon Review, Missouri Review, New England Review, New Ohio Review, Orion, PANK, Pleiades, Ploughshares, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Rattle, River Styx, Southern Humanities Review, The Southern Review, and West Branch.
Highlighted Publications
Poetry Books
Primitive: The Art and Life Horace H. Pippin. BOA Editions, 2016.
The Hands of Strangers: Poems from the Nursing Home. BOA Editions, 2011.
Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone. BOA Editions, 2007.
Children’s Books
Rooting for Plants: The Unstoppable Charles S. Parker, Black Botanist and Collector. Calkins Creek. Forthcoming 2022.
Hurry Kate, or You’ll Be Late! Holiday House. Forthcoming 2022.
Buzzing with Questions: The Inquisitive Mind of Charles H. Turner. Calkins Creek, Boyds Mills Press, 2019.
Catching a Storyfish. WordSong, Boyds Mills Press, 2016.
Busy-Busy Little Chick. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.
French translation. Au boulot, P’tit Cocot! Le Genévrier, 2014.
Roberto Walks Home. Viking/Penguin, 2008.
The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.
Korean translation. Gibburi, 2009.
Going North. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.
Recent Publications
Harrington, J. (2021). Lavishness. Beloit Poetry Journal, 71(1), 59-60.
Harrington, J. (2021). The Word You’re Looking For, and: Nocturne, and: Layered Pigments. Southern Review, 57(1), 124-128. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/776735
Harrington, J., & Taylor III, T. (2019). Buzzing with Questions: The Inquisitive Mind of Charles Henry Turner. Calkins Creek.
Harrington, J. N. (2019). The Attar of Roses. New England Review, 40(1), 25-26. https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2019.0003
Harrington, J. N. (2017). War Ready, and: Ode to the G.R.S. (Graves Registration Service). Callaloo, 39(4), 751-754. https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2017.0004