Henri Cole, the Josephine Olp Weeks Professor of Literature, was named a finalist by the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Award for his poetry collection, “The Other Love” (2025, Farrar, Straus and Giroux). The NBCC Award is presented annually to the finest books published in English in six categories: fiction, nonfiction, biography, autobiography, poetry, and criticism. Cole is one of five finalists in the Poetry category, with a winner to be selected at an awards ceremony in New York in March.