Henri Coulette
Illustration — Coulette in 1965 Henri Coulette (November 17, 1927 – March 26, 1988) was an American poet and educator. His first book, The War of the Secret Agents and Other Poems (Scribner, 1965), was greeted with acclaim and won the Lamont Poetry Prize. His second collection, The Family Goldschmitt (Scribner, 1971), seems to have received little attention, and it has been reported that much of the print run was accidentally pulped.
Henri Coulette
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- Born
- 1927 · Los Angeles.
- Died
- 1988
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- poet
- Education
- California State University and Los Angeles
- Honours
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- Languages
- English
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1927
Henri Coulette born at Los Angeles.
1988
Henri Coulette died.
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He studied at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, after which he returned to California. He spent nearly his entire career as a faculty member at California State University, Los Angeles. After Coulette's death (in South Pasadena, California, at 60), the poets Donald Justice and Robert Mezey edited and published Coulette's collected poetry. The collection included a wealth of unpublished poems, and was published in 1990 by the University of Arkansas Press. In 2026, Michael Caines and Boris Dralyuk edited and introduced a New and Selected Poems (Carcanet), which includes much of the work in the 1990 volume and a few more previously unpublished poems.
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- 1.Dana, Robert. Poetic Injustice. The New York Times. May 29, 1988.
- 2.Richards, Tad. Henri Coulette. The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry. Greenwood. 2005. 978-0-313-32381-2.
- 3.Gioia, Dana. California Poetry: From the Gold Rush to the Present. Heyday Books. 151. 2003. 978-1-890771-72-0.
- 4.Dralyuk, Boris. Operative words: On Henri Coulette. The New Criterion. April 2026.
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Henri Coulette is recorded as having received Guggenheim Fellowship.
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