Henri Cole

Henri Cole (born May 9, 1956) is an American poet born in Fukuoka, Japan, to an American father and French mother, raised in Virginia, and currently teaching at Claremont McKenna College. He is the author of numerous poetry collections, including the award-winning Middle Earth (2004 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award), Blackbird and Wolf (2008 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize), Nothing to Declare, Blizzard, and the selected Pierce the Skin: Selected Poems, 1982–2007, as well as the memoir Orphic Paris. Among his major honors are the Rome Prize, Berlin Prize, Jackson Poetry Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, Pulitzer finalist recognition, and election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.