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Henry Israeli [1]

Listed as: 
Poet
Public address: 
Broomall, PA
Pennsylvania US
Email: 
hisraeli@aol.com
Bio: 

Henry Israeli’s books include New Messiahs (Four Way Books: 2002), Praying to the Black Cat (Del Sol: 2010), god’s breath hovering across the waters (Four Way Books, 2016), and Our Age of Anxiety (winner of the White Pine Press Poetry Prize, 2019). In translation, he has published Fresco: the Selected Poetry of Luljeta Lleshanaku (New Directions: 2002), Child of Nature (New Directions: 2010), and Haywire (Bloodaxe: 2011). He has been awarded fellowship grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Canada Council on the Arts, and elsewhere. His poetry and translations have appeared in numerous journals, including American Poetry Review, The Iowa Review, Harvard Review, Quarterly West, Tin House, Fence, Verse as well as several anthologies. Henry Israeli is also the founder and editor of Saturnalia Books (www.saturnaliabooks.com [2]). He lives outside of Philadelphia with his wife and daughters.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Born in: 
Toronto
Canada
Raised in: 
Toronto
Prizes won: 

White Pine Poetry Prize, Del Sol Poetry Prize, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Canada Council for the Arts Fellowship, MacDowell Colony fellowship


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[1] https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/henry_israeli [2] http://www.saturnaliabooks.com