Henri Cole was born in Fukuoka, Japan and raised in Virginia. He has published nine collections of poetry and received many awards for his work, including the Jackson Poetry Prize, the Kingsley Tufts Award, the Rome Prize, the Berlin Prize, the Ambassador Book Award, the Lenore Marshall Award, and the Medal in Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His most recent book, memoir Orphic Paris, was published by New York Review Books. From 2010 to 2014, he was poetry editor of The New Republic and he currently teaches at Claremont McKenna College and lives in Boston.
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Henri Cole
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Region: Boston, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1992, 2007
More:
www.henricole.com
Studios
MacDowell
Henri Cole worked in the MacDowell studio.
Built in 1912, Pine Studio was renamed MacDowell Studio in 1943 in recognition of support from a group of Edward MacDowell’s music students. It was built as a composers’ studio and the stuccoed walls were intended to be soundproof. Like many of the studios on property, MacDowell was winterized in the 1950s when the program began welcoming…