Love, Death, Infidelity, Friendship, Aging, Greed, and the Workings of Fate
Henri Cole, professor of literature at Claremont McKenna College, was born in Fukuoka, Japan. He has published nine collections of poetry, including MIDDLE EARTH, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. He has received many awards for his work, including the Jackson Prize, the Kingsley Tufts Award, the Rome Prize, the Berlin Prize, the Lenore Marshall Award, and the Medal in Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Cole was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in May 2017. Cole's most recent collection is NOTHING TO DECLARE, and a memoir, ORPHIC PARIS, was published by New York Review Books last spring.
Professor Cole's Athenaeum presentation and reading celebrates his installation as Josephine Olp Weeks Professor of Literature at CMC.