Brian Henry

Brian Henry is an American poet, translator, editor, and literary critic. He lives in Richmond, Virginia.

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

Biography

Henry completed a BA at the College of William and Mary and an MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

He has published poetry in magazines including American Poetry Review, The Paris Review, Boston Review and Virginia Quarterly Review and his work has been translated into Russian, Croatian, Serbian, and Slovenian. Henry's poetry criticism has appeared in the publications including New York Times Book Review, the Times Literary Supplement, The Kenyon Review, The Georgia Review, and The Yale Review. His essays have been reprinted in such books as Imagining Australia (Harvard University Press).

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. His translation of Book of Things won the 2011 Best Translated Book Award.

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

Books
  • Static & Snow (Black Ocean, 2015)
  • Brother No One (Salt Publishing, 2013)
  • Doppelganger (Talisman House, 2011)
  • Lessness (Ahsahta Press, 2011)
  • 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/ Arc Publications, 2009)
  • 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)

Honors
gollark: If you have a universe entirely without human values, it isn't going to be pleasantly alien and diverse or something, but just horrible and/or boring to us.
gollark: I don't see why you'd trust "the universe" to do anything but execute physics.
gollark: Solution: mirrors.
gollark: But for e.g. cancer you really just want none.
gollark: Also², I don't like this "balance" thing; it is the case for many things that too much and too little are both bad.
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