Vanitas: Half Skull, Orchid, Gecko
“Even our orchid chokes on / the affection—overwatered, coffee grounds for soil. / The flies connive among the fruit.”
Harrison Hamm
Harrison Hamm is a writer and educator from rural West Tennessee. His debut chapbook, If It’s Country Music You Want, won the 2025 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship and will be published in 2026. A 2025 finalist for the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship, Hamm’s writing appears in Best New Poets, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review, The Poetry Review, TriQuarterly, and more. In 2027, he will earn an MFA in Creative Writing at NYU as a Goldwater Writing Workshop Fellow.