Discipline: Literature – poetry

Henry Israeli

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1997

Henry Israeli’s books include Our Age of Anxiety (White Pine, 2019), god's breath hovering across the waters (Four Way Books, 2016), Praying to the Black Cat (Del Sol: 2010), and New Messiahs (Four Way Books: 2002). In translation, he has published Fresco: the Selected Poetry of Luljeta Lleshanaku (New Directions: 2002), Child of Nature (New Directions: 2010), and Haywire (Bloodaxe: 2011). He has been awarded fellowship grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Canada Council on the Arts, and MacDowell. His poetry and translations have appeared in numerous journals, including American Poetry Review, The Iowa Review, and Harvard Review. He is also the founder and editor of Saturnalia Books. He lives outside of Philadelphia with his wife and daughters. He has taught in Drexel’s English and Philosophy Department since 2004.

Studios

Veltin

Henry Israeli worked in the Veltin studio.

Veltin Studio was donated by alumni of the Veltin School, a school for girls in New York with a highly respected visual arts department. As the plaque just outside the entrance attests, this studio was used by poet Edwin Arlington Robinson during most of the 24 summers he spent at MacDowell. Perhaps most famously, Thornton Wilder put the finishing…

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