Penny Harter

Penny Harter’s is the author of many poetry collections, including Still-Water Days and A Prayer the Body Makes (Kelsay Books/Aldrich Press, 2020), The Resonance Around Us (Mountains & Rivers Press, 2013), Recycling Starlight, The Night Marsh, and Buried in the Sky. With her late husband, William J. Higginson, Harter is co-author of The Haiku Handbook (Kodansha America), and with him was a co-editor of From Here Press for many years. She is also the author of several chapbooks, including collections of haiku.

Harter’s work has been published in many anthologies, including X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia’s An Introduction to Poetry; The Unswept Path, The Book of Donuts, Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems, Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness & Connection, How To Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope, The Path to Kindness: Poems of Connection and Joy, and others. Recent poems have appeared in journals such as The Naugatuck River Review, Persimmon Tree, Rattle, Tiferet, and in Ted Kooser’s column American Life in Poetry.

Harter’s awards include three Poetry Fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Arnold Gingrich Award from the Poetry Society of America, a teaching-poet award from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, and two fellowships from Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.