Lycoming College will host a poetry reading by author Jim Harms at on March 18 at 7:30 p.m. in the Shangraw Performance Hall, Mary Lindsay Welch Honors Hall.

Harms is a graduate of the University of Redlands and earned a master’s degree in fine arts from Indiana University. He has taught at Denison University, East Stroudsburg University, University of Pennsylvania and West Virginia University, where he is currently professor of English and director of the creative writing program.

He has authored several books of novels and books of poetry, which include “Freeways and Aqueducts,” “Quarters,” “The Joy Addict,” “Modern Ocean,” “East of Avalon” and “After West.” His poems, essays and short stories have appeared in many literary journals.

Harms has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the PEN/Revson Foundation Fellowship, grants from the West Virginia and Pennsylvania art commissions, and residencies from the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. At West Virginia University, he has been named a Benedum Distinguished Scholar, The Eberly College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teacher, The Eberly College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Researcher (twice), and The Carnegie Foundation/CASE United States Teacher of the Year for West Virginia.

Harms is a contributing editor of West Branch, a biannual magazine of poetry, fiction, essays and reviews published in the spring and fall of each year at the Stadler Center for Poetry at Bucknell University.

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