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It's never too early to pre-order my new collection forthcoming in July.
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A last laugh.
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November 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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My best friends were happily living together for 29 years and then, bam, they quietly eloped. So next year will be their 30th anniversary of living together but only their first anniversary of marriage. How will I shop for this? I have only a year to figure it out.
November 19, 2025 at 7:37 PM
My best friends were happily living together for 29 years and then, bam, they quietly eloped. So next year will be their 30th anniversary of living together but only their first anniversary of marriage. How will I shop for this? I have only a year to figure it out.
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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
October 25, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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
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A bouquet fresh from the garden to brighten up your weekend
October 25, 2025 at 9:27 AM
A bouquet fresh from the garden to brighten up your weekend
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"Poem" by Joe Brainard.
October 26, 2025 at 5:42 AM
"Poem" by Joe Brainard.
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Metaphor alert:
How Trump’s ballroom will dwarf the White House
Trump’s new 90,000-square-foot White House ballroom would be almost as large as the rest of the complex.
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October 26, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Metaphor alert:
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Henri Cole reads Louise Glück!
Henri Cole Reads Louise Glück
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October 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Henri Cole reads Louise Glück!
All are invited to this event at 4 pm today at MassArt!
October 18, 2025 at 5:59 PM
All are invited to this event at 4 pm today at MassArt!
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#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...
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...
Richie Hofmann Reads Henri Cole
The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “Twilight,” by Henri Cole, and his own poem “French Novel.”
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October 2, 2025 at 3:34 PM
#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...
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...
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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
September 30, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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
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‘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
October 1, 2025 at 12:53 PM
‘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
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Making Halloweenie cards.
September 30, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Making Halloweenie cards.
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(dark) blue sky
September 27, 2025 at 9:55 PM
(dark) blue sky
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Today's Featured Poem:
"107 Water Street" by @henricole.bsky.social from The Other Love published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Read here:
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"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...
107 Water Street
September is a time to feel the light,
write, scratch out, write, nap, walk, begin again.
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September 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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...
"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...
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Floored by this review of my book by Pico Iyer. Gosh.
The Life and Travels of Peter Matthiessen, Revisited
A new book sheds fresh light on the "Snow Leopard" author, from his founding of "The Paris Review" with George Plimpton to working for the C.I.A. to his many affairs.
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September 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Floored by this review of my book by Pico Iyer. Gosh.
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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
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
September 24, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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
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!
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...
"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...
107 Water Street
September is a time to feel the light,
write, scratch out, write, nap, walk, begin again.
spare.poems.com
September 20, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Thank you for this!
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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.
September 11, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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.
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“The tree of life is greater than all the helicopters of death.”
—Henri Cole
—Henri Cole
September 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
“The tree of life is greater than all the helicopters of death.”
—Henri Cole
—Henri Cole
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view from 10th floor, Weill Cornell Medical Center, NYC
(photo: Kate Hughes)
(photo: Kate Hughes)
September 8, 2025 at 4:45 AM
view from 10th floor, Weill Cornell Medical Center, NYC
(photo: Kate Hughes)
(photo: Kate Hughes)
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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.
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Virginia Woolf's cats, Sappho and Pluto, 1947
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.
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Virginia Woolf's cats, Sappho and Pluto, 1947
September 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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.
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Virginia Woolf's cats, Sappho and Pluto, 1947
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