Bernard Horn

Bernard Horn is the author of two books of poetry: Our Daily Words (2010), which won the Old Seventy Creek Press Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the 2011 Massachusetts Book Award in Poetry, and Love’s Fingerprints (2020). Of the latter, Major Jackson commented, “Humane and exuberant, his is the kind of intellect that rushes over the past like water over pebbles, elevating ordinary moments to the realm of art with a luminosity that startles.” 

Horn’s translations of poems by Yehuda Amichai have appeared in The New Yorker, Moment Magazine, and the Manhattan Review. His poetry has appeared in Mississippi Review, The New York Times, Tupelo Quarterly, Mad River Review, and Devouring the Green: Anthology of New Writing (2015). He received five fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and a Fulbright award.

Horn is the author of Facing the Fires: Conversations with A. B. Yehoshua (Syracuse University Press, 1998), the first book in English about Israel’s eminent novelist. He was a visiting poet at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at Tel-Aviv, Haifa, and Bar-Ilan Universities.

Horn was born in Brooklyn, New York. He earned a BS from MIT and a PhD from the University of Connecticut, where he studied with Charles Olson. He is professor emeritus at Framingham State University.