A Prayer the Body Makes

Penny Harter lives in Mays Landing, NJ. Her poems have been published widely in journals and anthologies, and her literary autobiography appears as an extended essay in Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, Volume 28 (1998) as well as in Contemporary Authors, Volume 172 (1999). A poem of hers was featured in American Life in Poetry, and journals such as Persimmon Tree, Rattle, Tattoo Highway, Tiferet, and Windhover have published her work. Recent poems appear in the anthologies Poetry of Presence, The Book of Donuts, and Healing the Divide. Her essays and poems also appear in the writing guides Wingbeats: Exercises & Practice in Poetry, The Crafty Poet: A Portable Workshop, The Crafty Poet II, and The Practice of Poetry. Her most recent books include The Resonance Around Us, One Bowl, Recycling Starlight, and The Night Marsh. With her late husband William J. Higginson, she co-authored The Haiku Handbook (25th Anniversary Edition, 2010). Harter was a featured reader at the 2010