Colleen S. Harris

10/06/2026

Incredibly proud to share that my poetry collection Speeding Through Familiar Curves won the Apogee Poetry Chapbook Award and will be published in a summer 2027 by April Gloaming Publishing! Enormous thanks to April Gloaming and Waxing & Waning Lit for this honor 💕💕💕

09/26/2026

Incredibly proud to share that my poem “inflammation as girl” in Philly Chapbook Review is nominated for Best of the Net! My enormous,l thanks to Aiden and team for doing amazing work to share wonderful poetry, and for including me among their authors.

Read five poems by Colleen S. Harris, our third biweekly poet of the Winter 2026 issue, along with a few words about "Inflammation As Girl."

09/07/2026

Dear friends,

Please consider supporting a handmade book by checking out the Kickstarter campaign. My poetry collection Babylon Songs has found a home with First Bite Press , an incredible fine press! The book has been printed on an antique printing press and is currently in the book bindery. The book is illustrated with linocuts. When you support one of their books, you help support the continuation of handmade books and the craftspeople who make them. There are also some broadsides and prints with poetry and illustrations for sale as well as the full book, all handmade. It’s amazing to see my writing turned into such a beautiful piece of physical art! Thanks for your consideration!

Babylon Songs is a fine press, hand printed poetry collection written by Colleen S. Harris with illustrations by Sandie Levent.

03/01/2026

Enormously proud to have my poem "It Begins This Way" out today from Does It Have Pockets today! Their team took a chance on a long poem I thought would never find a home, and to see it lovingly published in an outlet I love reading feels like coming home. Thank you, Camille & DIHP Team!

It Begins This Way

02/21/2026

My poem "All The Damage I Haven't Done" has been accepted by Flip the Script Publishing for 'Darling Nikki,' their forthcoming anthology of creative works celebrating the life and legacy of amazing poet Nikki Giovanni. My poem is a response to her poem "Allowables," which has haunted me ever since I read it. I am deeply honored & humbled to be included in a tribute to a poet who has meant so very much to me. Gonna go cry about it now.

01/29/2026

I adore Philly Poetry Chapbook Review (and credit them for my now regular poetry overspending), and am really proud to have five poems in the latest issue, all improved through Adien & team's careful and kind editorial work. You can read "Si No Sana Hoy, Sanará Mañana," "Inflammation As Girl," "Spivey’s II," "Mothers," and "Brentwood’s Daughter" there now!

Read five poems by Colleen S. Harris, our third biweekly poet of the Winter 2026 issue, along with a few words about "Inflammation As Girl."

01/29/2026

Really proud to have my poem "Trickster Gods Play Games With a Fourteen-Year Old Girl" in Dodging the Rain!!

Trickster Gods Play Games with a Fourteen-Year-Old Girl The school trip form saysfifty-five dollars. Yesterdayit didn’t mention money.She cannot grab the paperfrom her father without riskingthe bac…

01/23/2026

I am super proud that the first creative nonfiction essay I’ve written in more than a decade was published today at UnleashLit. If interested, you can read “Corkscrew Willow Women” at

creative nonfiction

01/06/2026

Things were so hectic, I missed out on sharing my poems "Funeral Shoes (for Shara)," "Hobbyhopper," and "Christmas Cake," published in Does It Have Pockets in December 2025.

I'm choosing to start this new year celebrating and sharing both these personal poems and the outlet - please read the other work DIHP has published beyond mine. They're an incredibly thoughtful editorial team, and superkind to their writers (I quite literally cried at how personalized my acceptance letter was). I have another piece coming out from them in March (stay tuned!) and could not be more honored!

Funeral Shoes | Hobbyhopper | Christmas Cake

11/28/2025

Proud to have my poem "The Bonebreaker" up in Abstractmagazinetv!! I think it's one of my best to date. Go give it a read:

Art: Abstract #4123 by Ellen June Wright