Richard Harrison is a multiple-award-winning poet, essayist, and editor. His poetry books include 25: Hockey Poems Selected and New, On Not Losing My Father’s Ashes in the Flood (awarded the 2017 Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry and the Stephan G. Stephansson Alberta Poetry Prize), Big Breath of a Wish, poems about his daughter’s acquisition of language, and Hero of the Play, poems in the language of hockey (launched at the Hockey Hall of Fame). Harrison has also published literary criticism, cosplay, spoken word poetry, and mathematics. A Professor Emeritus at MRU, Harriso’s scholarly and artistic efforts are focused on the teaching of writing and on poetry as contributor to public dialogue and social change.
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