Harry Humes

• Name — Harry Humes • Born — 5 June 1935 • Birthplace — Girardville, Pennsylvania, U.S. • Died — 4 April 2025 • Occupation — * Poet • short-story writer • professor • editor • Education — * Bloomsburg State College • University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Humes was born on June 5, 1935, in Girardville, Pennsylvania. He joined the United States Army in 1958. He graduated from Bloomsburg State College in 1964, and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, with a Master of Fine Arts in 1967.

Humes taught at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania from 1968 to 1999. His work has appeared in West Branch, Antaeus, Gettysburg Review, Massachusetts Review, Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, Tar River Poetry, and The Virginia Quarterly Review. He also was editor of Yarrow and Stone Country Poetry Journal. His first poetry collection, Winter Weeds, was published in his 40s, in 1983.

Humes died on April 4, 2025, at the age of 89.

• Man with a Yellow Pail, Greensboro Review, Spring 2005] • Flocking, Beloit Poetry Journal * * * * * * * * * * • (chapbook) • (chapbook) *

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