Henry Hart (born 1954) is the Hickman Professor of
Humanities at the
College of William and Mary 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. He edited
The James Dickey Reader (1999) and his biography
James Dickey: The World as a Lie (2000), was a finalist in nonfiction for the Southern Book Critics Circle Award. He also edited
The Wadsworth Themes in American Literature Series (2009). (2009) His poems and essays have appeared in
The New Yorker,
Poetry,
Kenyon Review,
Southern Review,
Sewanee Review,
Denver Quarterly, and numerous other journals. Hart was a founding editor of
Verse, an international poetry journal. In 2010 he won the Carole Weinstein Prize for Poetry.