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Henri Cole

Photo by Susan Unterberg

Henri Cole was born in Fukuoka, Japan, and raised in Virginia. He has published many collections of poetry and received numerous awards for his work, including the Jackson Poetry Prize, the Kingsley Tufts Award, the Rome Prize, the Berlin Prize, the Ambassador Book Award, the Lenore Marshall Award, and the Medal in Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His books includeOrphic Paris, a memoir (New York Review Books), and Gravity and Center: Selected Sonnets, 1994-2022 (Farrar, Straus, Giroux). From 2010 to 2014, he was poetry editor of the New Republic. He teaches at Claremont McKenna College and lives in Boston.

Residencies
  • 2016