Brian Henry

For the New Zealand lawyer, see Brian Henry (New Zealand).

Brian Henry is a United States poet, translator, editor, and literary critic. He lives in Richmond, Virginia.

Books

• Wings Without Birds (Salt Publishing, 2010)
• In the Unlikely Event of a Water (Equipage, 2007)
• The Stripping Point (Counterpath Press, 2007)
• Quarantine (Ahsahta Press, 2006)
• Graft (New Issues Press/Arc Publications, 2003)
• American Incident (Salt Publishing, 2002)
• Astronaut (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2002/ Arc Publications, 2000)
• The Verse Book of Interviews (co-ed.) (Verse Press, 2005)
• On James Tate (ed.) (University of Michigan Press, 2004)

Other publications

Henry has published poetry in American Poetry Review, The Paris Review, Boston Review, The Canary, Conduit, Denver Quarterly, Grand Street, Jacket, New American Writing, TriQuarterly, Virginia Quarterly Review, Volt, and magazines in Australia, England, Wales, Ireland, Germany, Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, and the Czech Republic and has been translated into Russian, Croatian, and Slovenian.

Critical writings

Henry's poetry criticism has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the Times Literary Supplement, The Antioch Review, Jacket, The Kenyon Review, The Georgia Review, and The Yale Review, among other places. His essays have been reprinted in various scholarly books, including Imagining Australia (Harvard University Press).

Translations

Henry has translated Woods and Chalices (Harcourt, 2008) by the Slovenian poet Tomaž Šalamun and The Book of Things (BOA Editions, 2010) by the Slovenian poet Aleš Šteger.

Teaching

Henry has taught at Plymouth State College and the University of Georgia. He currently teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Richmond.

Awards

• Cecil B. Hemeley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, 2008
• Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America for Quarantine, 2003
• Carole Weinstein Poetry Prize, 2006
• George Bogin Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, 2001
• Finalist for the Forward Prize in England for Astronaut, 2000
• Fulbright Scholarship to Australia, 1997

Education

• MFA Program for Poets & Writers, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• BA, College of William and Mary

External links

• Verse (international poetry magazine)
• University of Richmond page (faculty web page)
• "Poets and Writers interview"
• "Here Comes Everybody interview"