N. H. Pritchard

N. H. Pritchard
BornNorman Henry Pritchard
(1939-10-22)October 22, 1939
New York City, New York
DiedFebruary 8, 1996(1996-02-08) (aged 56)
Eastern Pennsylvania, U.S.
Occupationpoet, artist
EducationNYU, Columbia

Norman Henry Pritchard (October 22, 1939 – February 8, 1996), was an American poet. He was a member of the Umbra poets, a collective of Black writers in Manhattan's Lower East Side founded in 1962. Pritchard's avant-garde poetry often includes unconventional typography and spacing, as in "Harbour," or lack sentences entirely, as in " " ".