Colin Channer, Poet Laureate of Rhode Island

Colin Channer was born in Jamaica and educated there and in New York. His most recent book is Console (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), a New Yorker Best Book of the Year and a Finalist for the New England Book Award in addition to being listed for the PEN/Voelcker. 

 

Colin’s many honors include a Cullman Fellowship from the New York Public Library, a Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award, an Amy Clampitt Residency and a Henry Meritt Wriston Fellowship from Brown University where he is Associate Professor & Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Literary Arts. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Conjunctions, Agni and other venues.