Henry Hart (born 1954) is the Hickman Professor of Humanities at the College of William & Mary[1] in Williamsburg, Virginia.
In addition to three books of poetry — The Ghost Ship (1990), The Rooster Mask (1998), and Background Radiation (2007) — he has written critical works on such poets as Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill, and Robert Lowell.
Hart was a founding editor of Verse, an international poetry journal active 1984–2018.
On July 2, 2018, he was sworn in as the 17th Poet Laureate of Virginia in the commonwealth's capital of Richmond.
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