Elegy became our song. Jacek Gutorow in conversation with Henri Cole
Elegy became our song. Jacek Gutorow in conversation with Henri Cole

Summary/Abstract: Henri Cole was born in 1956 in Fukuoka, Japan, and raised in Virginia, in a house where French, Armenian and English were spoken. He received his BA at the college of William and Mary, his MA at the University of Wisconsin (Milwaukee), and his MFA at Columbia University. He debuted with The Marble Queen (1986) and has since published eight more volumes, including Pulitzer Prize finalist Middle Earth (2003), LA Times Book Prize finalist Pierce the Skin: Selected Poems 1982-2007 (2010) and, most recently, Nothing to Declare (2016). His awards and honors include the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the Berlin Prize of the American Academy in Berlin, the Rome Prize in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Amy Lowell Travelling Scholarship. From 1982 to 1988 he served as the executive director of the Academy of American Poets. He has taught at Ohio State University, Harvard University and Yale University. He lives in Boston.

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