Poets House Presents: francine j. harris

Award winning poet and educator francine j. harris reads from her recently published collection Here is the Sweet Hand (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2020), from quarantine in Houston, TX.

francine j. harris is the author of Here is the Sweet Hand from Farrar, Straus & Giroux in August, 2020. Her second collection, play dead, was the winner of the Lambda Literary and Audre Lorde Awards and finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Originally from Detroit, harris has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Cave Canem, and MacDowell Colony. She is is Associate Professor of English at University of Houston. 

Poets House Presents is a series of 10 minute readings that are posted on IGTV, YouTube, and our Archive on Fridays at noon.