Occupation Poet Name Henri Cole | Role Poet | |
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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 | ||
Henri cole reading new poems radcliffe institute
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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- Henri cole reading new poems radcliffe institute
- Henri cole reads his poem twilight
- Biography
- Books of poetry
- Awards and honors
- References
Henri cole reads his poem twilight
Biography
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.
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
