August Evening with Trumpet

Harry Humes's most recent collection is Butterfly Effect, selected by Pattiann Rogers for the 1998 National Poetry Series, and published in 1999 by Milkweed Editions. Previous collections are Ridge Music, The Way Winter Works, and The Bottomland, all published by the University of Arkansas Press. Poetry Northwest awarded him its Theodore Roethke Poetry Prize for his poem "Calling in the Hawk," and his poem "Butterfly Effect" was selected by James Tate for Best American Poetry of 1997. He is a recipient of a National Endowment Poetry Fellowship and several poetry grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. He is a professor emeritus at Kutztown University.