Henri Cole

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Occupation Poet Name Henri Cole		Role Poet

Born May 9, 1956 Fukuoka, Japan Education Columbia University (1982), University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (1980) Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada People also search for Jenny Holzer, Eckhard Schneider, Gardner Dozois Nominations Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Poetry Books Blackbird and Wolf: Poems, Middle Earth, Pierce the Skin: Selected, The visible man, Jenny Holzer : truth befo

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Henri Cole (born 1956) is an American poet, who has published nine collections of poetry. His books have been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, and German.

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Biography

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Henri Cole was born in Fukuoka, Japan, to an American father and French-Armenian 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 nine collections of poetry in English.

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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, Ohio State University, Reed College, Smith College, The College of William and Mary, and Yale University. He has collaborated with the visual artists Jenny Holzer and Kiki Smith. And from 2010 to 2014, he was poetry editor of The New Republic. Cole currently teaches at Claremont McKenna College.

Books of poetry

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2015: Nothing to Declare, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux

2015: Le Merle, Le Loup suivi de Toucher (French translation by Claire Malroux), Paris: Le bruit du temps

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

Awards and honors

2017 — American Academy of Arts and Letters, Elected Member

2016 — American Academy of Arts and Letters, Award of Merit Medal in Poetry

2014 — Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, Fellow

2012 — The Thom Gunn Award for Poetry for Touch, Publishing Triangle

2012 — The Jackson Poetry Prize for Touch, Poets & Writers

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

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

1985 — Ingram Merrill Foundation Award (also 1990)

References

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