Harris Schiff's prior curating adventures have included The Great Jazz Series at St. Mark's Church and The Harris Review which received a CCLM grant.   A book of poems, In the Heart of the Empire, is available from United Artists Press.  Secret Clouds and Yo-yo's With Money (with Ted Berrigan), are out of print.  Harris has had numerous mag publications, a couple of Fellowships (NEA, NYFA), and is included in many anthologies, the most recent of which American Poets Say Goodbye to the 20th Century has just been released.  He can be heard reading on such tapes & discs as Dial-a Poem Poets, World Record, and Biting the Apple and a video is available from the San Francisco State University Poetry Archive.  

Ted Berrigan described Harris' poetry as "a seemingly impossible amalgamation of the orphic methods of Jack Spicer, on the one hand, with the searing, lyrical, Whitmanic self-projection of Allen Ginsberg on the other, both as seriously modified by the playfully humorous techniques and linguistic brilliance of Ted Berrigan."  

Single, working parent of two boys, Jesse, 11 and Logan, 14, Harris recently managed the grasshopper division baseball team the "Marlins" of the Brooklyn 78th Precinct division of the Prospect Park Baseball League.