Henry Braun (July 25, 1930 – Oct. 11, 2014) was an American poet, teacher, and peace activist.
before studying at Boston University, where he knew Robert Lowell as a professor and Anne Sexton and Donald Junkins as classmates.
[1] In the 1960s he opposed the Vietnam War, organizing poetry read-ins, donating his war tax dollars to a veterans' hospital and to Philadelphia public schools (for which he was convicted of tax evasion) and organizing a draft card turn-in at the Justice Department (for which he was an unindicted co-conspirator at the "Boston Five" trial).
He also organized poetry events at the Philadelphia YM-YWHA and was a frequent teacher at Robert Bly's Conference on the Great Mother and the New Father.
In 1968 his first poetry collection, The Vergil Woods, was published by Atheneum and nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.