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Jerry Harp

Associate Professor with Term of the Humanities

Miller  417, MSC: 58
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Spring 2026: Tuesdays 11:30-1:30 by appointment

Jerry Harp’s books of poems are Spirit under Construction (NeoPoiesis, 2017), Urban Flowers, Concrete Plains (Salt Publishing, 2006), Gatherings (Ashland Poetry Press, 2004), and Creature (Salt Publishing, 2003). He has edited, with Jan Weissmiller, A Poetry Criticism Reader (University of Iowa Press, 2006). His reviews and essays appear regularly in Pleiades. He was a visiting professor at Kenyon College from 2001 to 2004. 

News Stories

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Student explores concept of “ideal love” in Shakespeare

Erica Terpening-Romeo ’14 is working with Assistant Professor of English Jerry Harp on writing a book about Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. The book acts as an analysis of the performance of the play and critiques the notion of “ideal love” that has come to be associated with it. In the following Q&A, Harp and Terpening-Romeo reflect on their experience.
faculty, undergrad, video 

Quick Take: English and Advising with Jerry Harp

Assistant Professor of English and Director of Advising Jerry Harp discusses his favorite class to teach at Lewis & Clark, and how his interactions with students have had an impact on his life—from discussing Milton to enjoying weekly dinners in Fields Dining Room.
Arts & Humanities, arts, faculty, institutional, literary arts, media appearances, People 

Professors share poetry with international radio audience

English Professors Mary Szybist and Jerry Harp share their poetry in an episode of the Australian radio show Poetica. Listen online.
faculty, honor, institutional, literary arts, People, publication 

Professor Harp’s “Houses” among best poems of 2009

English professor Jerry Harp is one of 75 poets from across the country included in The Best American Poetry 2009.
faculty, literary arts, People 

Visiting Professor of English Jerry Harp discusses possible decline in reading

In an article examining recent reports about the decline in reading, Visiting Professor of English Jerry Harp explains that the perceived movement away from reading “posits a golden age of reading that never existed.”

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English is located in Miller Center for the Humanities on the Undergraduate Campus.

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