Husbands

My 19 year old boy just got his annual test results & turns out he actually got healthier in the past year! Unbelievable at his age! His kidney disease is basically in remission & his high blood pressure is no longer! Here he is getting the news. Also, he went blind this year. Happy #Caturday

A bouquet fresh from the garden to brighten up your weekend

"Poem" by Joe Brainard.

Metaphor alert:

Henri Cole reads Louise Glück!

All are invited to this event at 4 pm today at MassArt!

#NationalPoetryDay Tricky to choose something. I may have to post a few faves. @henricole.bsky.social Twilight is a long standing favourite, not national & not that we have many bears in our apple trees round here. Richie Hofmann Reads Henri Cole | The New Yorker share.google/HB3FzpYnboHy...

Day 272. 9/29/25. “107 Water Street”. Henri Cole. A poem modeled after Elizabeth Bishop’s elegy for Robert Lowell titled ‘North Haven’. #latepost #poemaday365

‘I really feel very blessed and I don’t forget it either. There’s an awful lot of talent in this world. I just seem to be in the right place at the right time! Happy 90th Birthday to the wonderful Dame Julie Andrews 🌹 #JulieAndrews

Making Halloweenie cards.

(dark) blue sky

Good morning

Today's Featured Poem: "107 Water Street" by @henricole.bsky.social from The Other Love published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux Read here: spare.poems.com/poem/107-wat...

Floored by this review of my book by Pico Iyer. Gosh.

With me 'tis Autumn, and with you 'tis Spring, But Love hath brought these seasons sweet together. Within your leafy life I sit and sing, And you with me share wealth of harvest weather. - from ‘An Autumn-Blooming Rose’ by Alfred Austin (1835-1913). #RoseWednesday #poetry

Thank you for this!

Henri Cole

Last night @henricole.bsky.social gave one of the most beautiful readings ever at @booksonthepark.bsky.social and it was an event. Glad I got to be there. Afterwards we went to the Little Shamrock and drank a toast to beloved Seamus Heaney.

“The tree of life is greater than all the helicopters of death.” —Henri Cole

view from 10th floor, Weill Cornell Medical Center, NYC (photo: Kate Hughes)

excerpt from: Myself with Cats By Henri Cole Hanging out the wash, I visit the cats. "I don't belong to nobody," Yang insists vulgarly. "Yang," I reply, "you don't know nothing." Yin, an orange tabby, agrees but puts kindness ahead of rigid truth. * Virginia Woolf's cats, Sappho and Pluto, 1947

He sounds nice. Trump lashed out at a reporter Sunday after she pressed him on his mounting threats of war against U.S. cities. “When you say that, darling, that’s fake news. Be quiet and listen. You don’t listen, you never listen. That’s why you’re second rate." (Daily Beast)

I was talking today with @henricole.bsky.social about our upcoming event at @booksonthepark.bsky.social and I told him it was warm in San Francisco. I said "Today it feels like maybe 75" and of course later I learned it was 67. But that is high for us.

Apparently RFK Jr. is not just opposed to vaccines, he's against to germ theory. This makes him less qualified to be HHS secretary than most five-year-olds.

Mackerel sky

We have some great things coming your way in the next week, starting tonight! RSVP and find details at the following link: greenapplebooks.com/events/calen... @elainehsiehchou.bsky.social @transitbooks.bsky.social @beaconpress.bsky.social @henricole.bsky.social @dapowell.bsky.social

Coming up soon at @greenapplebooks.bsky.social I'll be celebrating this new collection by award-winning poet @henricole.bsky.social. Come join us in person or watch us on zoom.

Henri Cole

This flower is called "Queen of the Night." It blossoms only at night once a year.

If you are in San Francisco. @fsgbooks.bsky.social

Display of beautiful New York Review books at NYRB offices at East 32nd Street & Second Avenue

For us ID doctors, the CDC has been a rock. Data, guidelines, surveillance, travel advice -- all there, vetted by experts, referenced, reliable. Perfect? No. But watching its dismantling now breaks my heart. Some thoughts: blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...

“I never have anything figured out, or know the ending in advance.” —Henri Cole https://theparisreview.org/interviews/6312/henri-cole-the-art-of-poetry-no-98-henri-cole

Guten Morgen

So something fun for yourself tonight. Watch a movie, make a grilled cheese sandwich, doodle, journal, take a hot bath, have sex, make pictures, go to a rugby game, send a postcard to your new bestie.

Here's a nice link to my reading at the Stonington Free Library in celebration of my new poetry collection "The Other Love." www.youtube.com/live/WUGpl4B...

Santa Maria della Salute la sera

visiting with poet-host Henri Cole in Stonington CT where, at the beautiful James Merrill House, I gave a reading.

@joycecaroloates.bsky.social Thank you for this. It's beautiful.

Flashback Thursday. At the Joe Brainard exhibit at Berkeley Art Museum in 2001. Photo by Kevin Killian.

In our latest archival column, Hannah Smith hits the mines & digs up two poems from 1989 🪨 Read DISPATCH FROM THE ARCHIVES | JOYCE CAROL OATES & HENRI COLE 💥 southwestreview.com/volume-110-n...

Henri Cole

Donald Trump is pressuring our esteemed Smithsonian Museums to rewrite our past. But you cannot erase the truth of our history whether positive or negative.

Even pancake preparations are not waking them...

Have three teenagers with me on the island, all blissfully and deeply asleep half past noon. School is going to be such a shock.

There is a poem for this moment, one of my faves, not only for the bear but for the depth and humanity. Twilight by Henri Cole. Twilight | The Poetry Foundation share.google/s5U8ZafqZJeW...