Henri Cole
Department
Biography
Henri Cole was born in Fukuoka, Japan, to a French mother and an American father. He has published eleven collections of poetry and received many awards, including the Jackson Prize, the Kingsley Tufts Award, the Rome Prize, the Berlin Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lenore Marshall Award, a fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and the Award of Merit Medal in Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His has also published the memoir Orphic Paris.
Education
MFA, Columbia University, 1982; MA, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1980; BA, College of William and Mary, 1978
Awards and Affiliations
Elected Member, American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2017
Award of Merit Medal in Poetry, American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2016
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Fellow, 2014
The Jackson Poetry Prize, Poets & Writers, 2012
The Thom Gunn Award for Poetry, Publishing Triangle, 2012
Harvard College Phi Beta Kappa poet, 2011
Los Angeles Times Book Award in Poetry, Finalist, 2010
American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Elected Fellow, 2010
Sara Teasdale Award in Poetry, Wellesley College, 2009
National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship (Poetry), 2009
Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, Academy of American Poets, 2008
Ambassador Book Award in Poetry, English Speaking Union, 2008
Massachusetts Book Award in Poetry, 2008
Lambda Literary Award in Poetry, 2008
United States Artist Fellowship in Literature, 2007
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 2005
Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, 2004
American Academy of Arts and Letters, Award in Literature, 2004
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Finalist, 2004
Massachusetts Book Award in Poetry, 2004
Lambda Literary Award in Poetry, 2004
Los Angeles Times Book Award in Poetry, Finalist, 2004
Japan-US Friendship Commission, Creative Artist Fellowship, 2001
Berlin Prize, American Academy in Berlin, 2000
Rome Prize in Literature, American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1995
National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship (Poetry), 1993
Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, 1989-90
Research and Publications
Gravity and Center - Selected Sonnets, 1994-2022 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2023)
Blizzard (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2020)
Orphic Paris (New York Review Books, 2018)
Nothing to Declare (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015)
Touch (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011)
Pierce the Skin: Selected Poems 1982-2007 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2010)
Blackbird and Wolf (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007)
Middle Earth (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003)
The Visible Man (Knopf, 1998)
The Look of Things (Knopf, 1995)
The Zoo Wheel of Knowledge (Knopf, 1989)
The Marble Queen (Atheneum, 1986)
Paris-Orphée, translated by Claire Malroux, Le bruit du temps (Paris, 2018)
Le Merle, le Loup suivi de Toucher (French translation of Blackbird and Wolf followed by Touch), translated by Claire Malroux, Le bruit du temps (Paris, 2015)
Terre Médiane (French translation of Middle Earth), translated by Claire Malroux, Le bruit du temps (Paris, 2011)
Myrlo y Lobo (Spanish translation of Blackbird and Wolf), translated by Eduardo López Truco, Quálea Editorial, S. L., Cantabria, Spain, 2010
Autoritratto con Gatti (Italian selected poems), translated by Massimo Bacigalupo, Casa editrice Guanda, Parma, 2010
La Apariencia de la Cosas (Spanish selected poems), translated by Eduardo López Truco, Quálea Editorial, S. L, Cantabria, Spain, 2008
Vingt-Deux Poèmes (French/English bilingual edition) translated by Claire Malroux, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, 2005
Blur (Artist book with Jenny Holzer), Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, 2005