Henri Cole, Middle Earth (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a New York Times "notable book of the year"

The last, on May 18, is to feature May Swenson and Henri Cole.

Henri Cole, Blackbird and Wolf (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Henri Cole, a poet, has planted his desk in an aerie that he created in his studio apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

He is exuberant about English-language poets like Geoffrey Hill, Henri Cole and Anne Carson, whom he finds "an astonishing poet for her intensity."

Held in conjunction with The Writer's Voice, the benefit is also to include readings by John Fox, Henri Cole and Nancy Schoenberger.

Touch, by Henri Cole (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $23).

Henri Cole (born 1956) is an award-winning American poet.

Henri Cole was born in Fukuoka, Japan, to an American father and French-Armenian mother, and raised in Virginia, United States.

Giles Harvey points to the fine poem "Embers," by Henri Cole, which opens: