Henri Cole

Henri Cole (born 1956) is an award-winning American poet.

Biography

Henri Cole was born in Fukuoka, Japan, to an American father and French mother, and raised in Virginia, United States. His father, a North Carolinian, enlisted in the service after graduating from high school and, while stationed in Marseilles, met Cole's mother, who worked at the PX. Together they lived in Japan, Germany, Illinois, California, Nevada, Missouri and Virginia, where Cole attended public schools and the College of William and Mary. He has published eight collections of poetry in English.

From 1982 until 1988 he was executive director of The Academy of American Poets. Since that time he has held many teaching positions and been the artist-in-residence at various institutions, including Brandeis University, Columbia University, Davidson College, Harvard University, Reed College, Smith College, The College of William and Mary, and Yale University. Cole currently teaches at Ohio State University and is the poetry editor of The New Republic. He lives in Boston.

2011: Touch, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
2011: Terre Médiane (French translation by Claire Malroux), Paris: Le bruit du temps
2010: Mirlo y Lobo (Spanish translation by Eduardo López Truco), Cantabria: Quálea Editorial
2010: Autoritratto con Gatti (Italian translation by Massimo Bacigalupo), Parma: Guanda Editore
2010: Pierce the Skin (Selected Poems, 1982-2007), New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
2008: La Apariencia de la Cosas (Spanish translation by Eduardo López Truco), Cantabria: Quálea Editorial
2007: Blackbird and Wolf, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
2005: Vingt-Deux Poèmes (French translation by Claire Malroux), Paris: Yvon Lambert
2003: Middle Earth, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
1998: The Visible Man, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
1995: The Look of Things
1989: The Zoo Wheel of Knowledge
1986: The Marble Queen

2011 — Harvard University Phi Beta Kappa poet
2011 — Finalist, Los Angeles Times Book Award in Poetry for Pierce the Skin (Selected Poems 1982-2007)
2010 — American Academy of Arts & Sciences, elected member
2009 — Sara Teasdale Award in Poetry, Wellesley College
2009 — National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship
2008 — Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for Blackbird and Wolf, Academy of American Poets
2008 — Ambassador Book Award in Poetry for Blackbird and Wolf, English-Speaking Union of the United States
2008 — Massachusetts Book Award in Poetry for Blackbird and Wolf
2008 — Lambda Literary Award in Poetry for Blackbird and Wolf
2007 — United States Artists USA Hildreth/Williams Fellow, Literature
2004 — Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for Middle Earth^[1]
2004 — John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
2004 — Award in Literature, American Academy of Arts and Letters
2004 — Finalist, Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for Middle Earth
2004 — Finalist, Los Angeles Times Book Award in Poetry for Middle Earth
2004 — Massachusetts Book Award in Poetry for Middle Earth
2001 — Japan-US Friendship Commission, Creative Artist Fellowship
2000 — Berlin Prize, American Academy in Berlin
1995 — Rome Prize in Literature, American Academy of Arts and Letters
1993 — National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship
1989 — Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship