Mr. Brian Henry

Associate Professor of Creative Writing
303-E Ryland Hall
Office: (804) 287-6431
Fax: (804) 289-8313

Teaching:
Creative Writing (Poetry, Fiction, Writing for the Stage, Mixed Media)
Contemporary Poetry

Education:
M.F.A., University of Massachusetts-Amherst
B.A., College of William and Mary

Selected Publications:

Books: 

Lessness. Boise: Ahsahta Press, forthcoming.

Woods and Chalices by Tomaz Salamun (translated). New York: Harcourt, 2008.

In the Unlikely Event of a Water. London: Equipage, 2007.

The Stripping Point. Denver: Counterpath Press, 2007.

Quarantine. Boise: Ahsahta Press, 2006.

The Verse Book of Interviews (ed. with Andrew Zawacki). Amherst: Verse Press, 2005.

On James Tate (ed.). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004.

Graft. Kalamazoo: New Issues Press, 2003.

American Incident. Cambridge (UK): Salt Publishing, 2002.

Astronaut. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2002 / Lancashire (UK): Arc Publications, 2000.

Poems in Anthologies:

The Wadsworth Anthology of Poetry, Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century, Prentice Hall Literature Portfolio, Isn’t It Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Younger American Poets, The Forward Book of Poetry 2003, The Forward Book of Poetry 2001, The Best of the Prose Poem, American Poetry: The Next Generation.

Poems in Journals:

300+ poems in American Poetry Review, The Antioch Review, Boston Review, The Canary, Colorado Review, Conduit, Denver Quarterly, Fascicle, Fence, Fulcrum, Grand Street, Gulf Coast, Harvard Review, The Iowa Review, Island (Australia), Jacket (Australia), The Kenyon Review, Leviathan Quarterly (Germany), The Massachusetts Review, McSweeney's, Meanjin (Australia), Metre (Ireland), Michigan Quarterly Review, The Modern Review (Canada), New American Writing, New England Review, Octopus, Open City, Overland (Australia), Oxford Poetry (UK), The Paris Review, Poetry Daily, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Review (UK), Poetry Wales, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, Slope, The Southern Review, Southwest Review, TriQuarterly, Virginia Quarterly Review, Volt, The Yale Review, and others.

Short Fiction in Journals:

BathHouse, LIT, Quarterly West, Southerly (Australia), Stride (UK).

Translations in Journals:

The Antioch Review, Black Warrior Review, Boston Review, Circumference, Conjunctions, Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly, Fence, Field, Gulf Coast, Jacket, The Modern Review (Canada), New Ohio Review, The New Republic, North American Review, Octopus, The Paris Review, Poetry Review (UK), Subtropics, Washington Square, and others.

Critical Articles:

“Exquisite Disjunctions, Exquisite Arrangements: Jorie Graham’s Strangeness of Strategy.” Jorie Graham: Essays on the Poetry, edited by Thomas Gardner, University of Wisconsin Press, 2005. Reprinted from The Antioch Review.

“The Presentation and Performance of Self in John Forbes’ Poetry.” Imagining Australia: Literature and Culture in the New New World, edited by Judith Ryan and Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Harvard University Press, 2004.

“Bloom’s Kinsella: The Politics of Selection in Peripheral Light.” Jacket. Number 27 (2005).

“Freedom and Discipline: Hayden Carruth’s Blues.” The Georgia Review. Volume 58, Number 2(Summer 2004).

“John Tranter’s New Form(alism): The Terminal.” Antipodes. Volume 18, Number 1 (June 2004).

“New Scaffolding for New Arrangements: Charles Wright’s Low Riders.” Virginia Quarterly Review. Volume 80, Number 2 (Spring 2004).

“Emersonian Transition in James Tate’s The Lost Pilot.” The Iowa Review. Volume 32, Number 2 (Fall 2002).

Reviews:

Reviews and essay/reviews for Australian Book Review, Boston Review, Chicago Review, Harvard Review, Jacket (Australia), The Kenyon Review, Manoa: A Journal of Pacific Writing, New York Times Book Review, PN Review (UK), Poetry Review (UK), Prairie Schooner, Stand (UK), Talisman, Threepenny Review, Times Literary Supplement (UK), Virginia Quarterly Review, The Yale Review, and others.

Interviewed:

Poets and Writers, Cross-Cultural Poetics, Front Porch, Island (Australia), Poet’s Market.
 
Readings:

Bowery Poetry Club (NY), Brown University, Carrboro Poetry Festival, University of Chicago, College of William and Mary, University of Colorado, Columbia University, Discrete series (Chicago), Frequency series (NY), Hollins University, University of Iowa, Jubilat Reading Series (Boston), KGB series (NY), Lafayette College, La Mama Theatre (Melbourne), University of Massachusetts, Medana Days of Poetry and Wine Festival (Slovenia), University of Michigan, Moscow International Poetry Festival, National Arts Club (NY), New York University, PEN World Voices Festival, Rain Taxi Reading Series (Minneapolis), Ruthless Grip Art Project Experimental Poetry Series (Washington, D.C.), Sonoma State University, Tasmanian Poetry and Dance Festival, Vassar College, Vilenica International Literary Festival (Slovenia), Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Washington University, and others.