Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts in Writing: The Bennington Writing Seminars

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Henri Cole, Poetry

Cole's books of poems are Middle Earth (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2003), The Visible Man (Knopf, 1998), The Look of Things (Knopf, 1995), The Zoo Wheel of Knowledge (Knopf, 1989), and The Marble Queen (Atheneum, 1986). Middle Earth was awarded the Kingsley Tufts Award for 2004 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Cole's poems have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and many other magazines. Cole has taught at Harvard, Columbia, Smith, Reed, Brandeis, and elsewhere. Cole has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a creative artist fellowship from the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission, the Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin, the Rome Prize in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, NEA and Ingram Merrill fellowships, the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship, and other awards for his work. From 1983 to 1988 he was executive director of the Academy of American Poets. Cole took his BA from the College of William and Mary, his MA from the University of Wisconsin, and his MFA from Columbia University. He lives in Boston.

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