Henri Cole, the Josephine Olp Weeks Professor of Literature, published a poetry collection, “The Other Love,” which was named to the National Book Critics Circle’s 2025 Longlist for Poetry. In addition, an essay that Cole published in The Paris Review was named as one of 2025’s best by Longreads.

In October, Cole appeared as a guest on The New Yorker’s Poetry Podcast, hosted by Kevin Young, the magazine’s poetry editor. He read “Vita Nova,” by Louise Glück, who won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, and his own poem “Figs,” which was published in The New Yorker in 2022 and in A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker, 1925-2025 in 2025.