Cole, Norma: To Be at Music

Norma Cole is the author of poetry books including Fate News, Win These Posters and Other Unrelated Prizes Inside, Where Shadows Will, Collective Memory, Spinoza in Her Youth, and Actualities, a collaboration with painter Marina Adams. Her translations from French include works by Danielle Collobert and Jean Daive. Cole has published poems in literary magazines including Gramma, Posit, BrooklynRail, Art in America, Hambone, Sulfur, and Conjunctions, and in anthologies such as American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry and Best American Experimental Writing. Cole was born in Toronto, Canada, and she lives in San Francisco.