Brian Henry is the author of eleven books of poetry and the prose book Things Are Completely Simple: Poetry and Translation. He has translated Tomaž Šalamun’s Kiss the Eyes of Peace: Selected Poems 1964-2014, Aleš Debeljak’s Smugglers, and six books by Aleš Šteger. He coedited Verse from 1995 to 2018. His work has received numerous honors, including two NEA fellowships, the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, a Howard Foundation fellowship, a Slovenian Academy of Arts and Sciences grant, and the Best Translated Book Award.

Praise

Brian Henry ... entices the reader into the hidden crevices and empty spaces of daily existence

—Paris Review 

He “offers a powerful re-calibration of the senses, shifting our attention beneath the surfaces and skins of things."

—Publishers Weekly

His “work is rangy in dynamic and form, [his] poems unsentimental and crisp, pensive and rounded.”

—The Literary Review

What impresses the most is the fact that Brian Henry is still experimenting and growing and there is a genuine excitement preceding each new book. As he has proven so far, there is little in language or subject matter that cannot find its way into the poetic idiom.

—Cutbank