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
Hurry Kate, or You’ll Be Late! Holiday House. Forthcoming 2020.
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. N. (2016, Sep). Catching a Storyfish. WordSong.
Harrington, J. N. (2016). Primitive: The Art and Life of Horace H. Pippin. BOA Editions Ltd.
Harrington, J. N., & Pinkney, B. (2013, Feb 19). Busy-Busy Little Chick. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Harrington, J. N. (2011). The Hands of Strangers: Poems from the Nursing Home. BOA Editions Ltd.
Harrington, J. N., & Wheeler, J. (2008). Roberto Walks Home. Viking.