This week we welcome Brian Henry as our guest blogger. Brian is the author of six books of
poetry, most recently Wings Without Birds (Salt Publishing, 2010).
His poems have appeared in magazines and anthologies around the world
and have been translated into Croatian,
Polish, Russian, Serbian, and Slovenian. He has co-edited Verse since 1995, and he co-edited The Verse Book of Interviews. His poetry criticism has appeared in
such places as The New York Times Book
Review, Times Literary Supplement,
Jacket, Boston Review, The Yale
Review, The Kenyon Review, Denver Quarterly, and Virginia Quarterly Review. His
translation of Tomaž Šalamun’s Woods and Chalices appeared from
Harcourt in 2008, and his translation of Aleš
Šteger’s The Book of
Things is forthcoming from BOA Editions in November. He lives in Richmond, Virginia.
Welcome, Brian.
--sdh
Most impressively, I believe he once read at the Athena Book Shop of blessed memory.
Posted by: Susan Ramsey | July 25, 2010 at 09:07 AM
nice photo, dude- James River??
Posted by: shann palmer | August 06, 2010 at 12:24 PM