Gerrit Henry

Who was Gerrit Henry?

Gerrit Henry was an American art critic, author and poet.

Henry published feature and critical articles in After Dark, Art News, Art in America, The New York Times, The Village Voice, The Los Angeles Times, People Magazine, Art International, The Spectator, and The New Republic. His books include Janet Fish: A Monograph, The Mirrored Clubs of Hell: Poems by Gerrit Henry, Poems & Ballades and Ian Hornak: Reverence and Reverie. He is also published in Paris Review, Yale Review and Cover. The Time of the Night, a posthumous collection of his poems edited by Marc Cohen, was published in 2011 by The Groundwater Press. His last project, Climbing the Stairs, a documentary about his life and poetry, directed by Neil Grayson and produced by Dactyl Foundation for the Arts & Humanities, was released in 2004. Henry was an advisory board member and Poetry Series Director at Dactyl Foundation beginning in 1998. He graduated from Columbia College, Columbia University in 1972 with a B.A. in English. He studied poetry under Kenneth Koch.