Michael S Harper

Biographic Data

ID3612874
NAMEMichael S Harper
GIVEN NAMESMichael S
FAMILY NAMEHarper
SIGNATUREHARPER M S
AFFILIATIONSJohn Brown University
ORCID0000-0003-4182-2820
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS59
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT59
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1970
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
H-INDEX0

  • Homebound: Homeground, and: A Coltrane Poem: 9 23 98, and: Meditation for Inese, and: An Umbrella of Maple Leaves

    Michael S HarperARTICLEAfrican American Review2017

    352 African American Review 50.4 (Winter 2017): 352-356© 2018 Johns Hopkins University Press and Saint Louis University HarperMS_Harper 2/13/2018 3:14 PM Page 352 MICHAEL S. HARPER 353 HarperMS_Harper 2/13/2018 3:14 PM Page 353 354 AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW HarperMS_Harper 2/13/2018 3:14 PM Page 354 MICHAEL S. HARPER 355 HarperMS_Harper 2/13/2018 3:14 PM Page 355 356 AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW HarperMS_Harper 2/13/2018 3:14 PM Page 356

  • Saint Dolores

    Michael S HarperARTICLECallaloo2004

    Saint Dolores(Phillips Exeter Academy) Michael S. Harper (bio) Abyssinian, foggy bottom rose: the sable story of morass, the morpho come to quiet costume, life, and alive in the pit of New Hampshire. She could not start here; privileged larvae of the few have eaten at her plumage. She would be old, older than they who want to wear her clothes, skin of cheetah, drape of upas tree: this is their christening to all memory, every song she sings. Mich…

  • What You Deserve in This World

    Michael S HarperARTICLECallaloo2004

    What You Deserve in This WorldFor Esther Michael S. Harper (bio) In the next you are married to an African whose tribal sentience allies you to your sisters for the first time primal time in his universe yours will be service again, but occasionally you will look down your hips healed in childbearing so many as to make you dizzy as dynastic blessings come with Jupiter and perhaps the golden stool: women still run the cosmic marketplace no matter …

  • Songlines in Michaeltree: New and Selected Poems

    Keith D Leonard, Michael S HarperARTICLEAfrican American Review2002

  • Royce Hall

    Michael S HarperARTICLECallaloo2001

    Michael S. Harper, the first Poet Laureate of Rhode Island (1988-1993), is University Professor and Professor of English at Brown University and author of several volumes of poems. His Honorable Amendments (1995) won the George Kent Award selected by Gwendolyn Brooks, and his collected poems Songlines in Michaeltree was published in the spring of 2000. He is also co-editor (with Anthony Walton) of the Vintage Anthology of African American Poetry,…

  • Praisesong for BB (2 18 97)

    Michael S HarperARTICLECallaloo2001

    Callaloo - Volume 24, Number 4, Fall 2001

  • Mary Kinzie's Talk on Milton

    Michael S HarperARTICLECallaloo2001

    Callaloo - Volume 24, Number 4, Fall 2001

  • Galveston: 9 8 1900

    Michael S HarperARTICLECallaloo2001

    Michael S. Harper, the first Poet Laureate of Rhode Island (1988-1993), is University Professor and Professor of English at Brown University and author of several volumes of poems. His Honorable Amendments (1995) won the George Kent Award selected by Gwendolyn Brooks, and his collected poems Songlines in Michaeltree was published in the spring of 2000. He is also co-editor (with Anthony Walton) of the Vintage Anthology of African American Poetry,…

  • Modulations on a Theme: For Josephus Long

    Michael S HarperARTICLECallaloo2001

    Callaloo - Volume 24, Number 3, Summer 2001

  • Zen: The Trainride Home to the Welcome Table

    Michael S HarperARTICLECallaloo2001

  • My Father at 75

    Michael S HarperARTICLECallaloo2001

  • Poetry

    Michael S HarperARTICLEAfrican American Review2000

  • The Map and the Territory: An Interview with Michael S. Harper

    Michael A Antonucci, Michael Antonucci et al.ARTICLEAfrican American Review2000

    The interview that follows was produced in three-part process. The initial question-and-answer sessions took place in Providence, Rhode Island, during June 1997 and August 1998. Audio recordings of these meetings were made in Harper's loft, in his office on the campus of Brown University, and in his car while driving through the narrow streets of Providence, and subsequently transcribed. Professor Harper then reviewed the raw transcripts, editing…

  • Poetry

    Michael S HarperARTICLEThe Black Scholar1999

  • At the Moment: While listening to John Coltrane's "Moments Notice" on NPR

    Michael S HarperARTICLECallaloo1999

    At the Moment: While listening to John Coltrane’s “Moments Notice” on NPR Michael S. Harper (bio) Cave Canem: A Special Section Cave Canem Meditation, June 29, 1998, for WWH* There is hurt and no balm gilead for Saint Jude is my patron saint the room I was given at monastery retreat in Esopus, New York so I conjured Sean Connery in Chicago Untouchable on his belly in blood gasping for his medal which he hoped would protect him The view from Saint…

  • Day Room: St. Elizabeths Hospital

    Michael S HarperARTICLECallaloo1998

    Callaloo - Volume 21, Number 4, Fall 1998

  • Br'er Sterling and the Rocker

    Michael S HarperARTICLECallaloo1998

    Callaloo - Volume 21, Number 4, Fall 1998

  • Messages as Translation

    Michael S HarperARTICLECallaloo1998

    Callaloo - Volume 21, Number 4, Fall 1998

  • Charlotte and Nathan Exchange: 50Th Anniversary

    Michael S HarperARTICLECallaloo1997

    Callaloo - Volume 20, Number 2, Spring 1997

  • Archives: The Public Library, I

    Michael S HarperARTICLECallaloo1997

    Callaloo - Volume 20, Number 2, Spring 1997

  • Aborigines

    Michael S HarperARTICLECallaloo1997

    AboriginesAtlanta ‘Cotton’ Centennial: September 18, 1995 Michael S. Harper (bio) Delta fails us— even the business class is wrong on protocol, and windows, the new invention, overfeeds and underplays the coming Olympics: Mercedes, the autobahn of prizes, are in mothballs for travelers aid is still boxcars, busrides, ferries on the superhighway of telex, Time-Warner, uploading and downloading facsimiles of change, rapid as legions debriefing in R…

  • Upstage From Rosewood

    Michael S HarperARTICLECallaloo1997

    Callaloo - Volume 20, Number 2, Spring 1997

  • Charlotte to Nathan

    Michael S HarperARTICLECallaloo1997

    Callaloo - Volume 20, Number 2, Spring 1997

  • Aborigines (Estonia)

    Michael S HarperARTICLECallaloo1997

    Callaloo - Volume 20, Number 2, Spring 1997

  • Crypt: In memoriam, Ralph Waldo Ellison, 1914-1994

    Michael S HarperARTICLECallaloo1995

    Callaloo - Volume 18, Number 2, Spring 1995