Gerrit Henry

Poet, author, and art critic Gerrit Henry was born in New York City, and he earned a BA in English from Columbia University, where he studied with Kenneth Koch. He was the author of Janet Fish (1987), The Mirrored Clubs of Hell (1991), Poems & Ballades (1998), Ian Hornak: Reverence and Reverie (1999), and The Time of the Night, a posthumous poetry collection edited by Marc Cohen (Groundwater Press, 2011).

Henry’s feature and critical articles were published widely, including 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. He taught at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan and C.W. Post College on Long Island. He died in 2003 in New York City.