Ira E. Harrison a.k.a. Dr Poet was an activist during the 1960s, and is currently an anthropologist and author searching for Justice, Peace, Truth, and Understanding. He has received his Bachelor Degree at Morehouse College, his Master Degree at Atlanta University, his Ph.D. at Syracuse University, and his Masters of Public Health at John Hopkins University.

Harrison has served as a board member of the Knoxville Writers Guild, as treasurer of the Georgia Poetry Society, as facilitator of the Southwest Regional Library Poetry Group, as Poetry Director of the Burbank Senior Artists Colony, and is a member of the Academy of American Poets.

Harrison's poems have appeared in The Phoenix, The Pegasus, America Sings, Recapit, Scriptania, International Students Association Newsletter (Syracuse University), Book of Tennessee Writers, All Around Us: Poems from the Valley, The Washington Afro-American, The Washington Tribute, The Reach of Song, and Peaceful Poetry to Love Your Societal Consciousness. He has also published six books of poetry: They/Ms Beautiful Black Women, POP: Poems on Parenting, The Mothers, Acts of Joy: the Poetry of Relationship, B.A.A.D. (Beautiful African American Daughters), and Poetry and Prevention: A Little Ounce is Worth.