Barbara Henning
Barbara Henning (born October 26, 1948) is an American poet and fiction writer. She is the author of eight books of poetry, three novels, a series of photo-poem pamphlets and most recently a collection of interviews, Looking Up Harryette Mullen: Sleeping with the Dictionary and Other Works (Belladonna, 2010). Her work has been published in numerous journals. Her most recent books of poetry and prose are "A Swift Passage" (Quale Press, 2013); Cities and Memory (Chax Press, 2010) and a conceptual project, a collection of sonnets composed from 999 passages from 999 books in her collection, entitled My Autobiography (United Artists Books, 2007). Her latest novel is Thirty Miles to Rosebud (BlazeVOX, 2009).
Background
Henning was born in Detroit, Michigan and lives in New York City. She is professor Emerita from Long Island University in Brooklyn where she taught creative writing and literature. Presently she is teaching for Naropa University, Writers.com, and LIU.
In 2003 Henning began composing, publishing and distributing to a list of poets, a limited artist's series of her photo-poem pamphlets under the imprint of Long News. They include My Animal Eyeball, The Dinner, Twelve Green Rooms, Twirling, the Spirit Flies Off Like a Falcon, Hari Om, Cities & Memory, An Arc Falling into the Bougainvillea, 7th Street, The Animal I Am, Aham Asmi Aham Asmi, Black Grapes, My Autobiography, Found in the Park, Up North and Aerial View. Many of these have been collected together in her Chax Press book, Cities and Memory and her Quale Press Book, "A Swift Passage."
In 1992, she founded the literary magazine Downtown Brooklyn: A Journal of Writing, an English Department publication at Long Island University. From 1993-1995, Henning was the editor of Long News In the Short Century, a journal of art and writing. Sally Young and Miranda Maher were the Art Editors.
Other publications
Books of poetry include
Include:
- "A Swift Passage" (Quale Press, 2013)
- Cities and Memory (Chax Press, 2010)
- My Autobiography (United Artists, 2007)
- Detective Sentences (Spuyten Duyvil, 2001)
- Love Makes Thinking Dark (United Artists, 1995)
- Smoking in the Twilight Bar (United Artists, 1988)
Novels
- Black Lace (Spuyten Duyvil, 2001)
- You, Me and the Insects (Spuyten Duyvil, 2005)
- Thirty Miles to Rosebud (BlazeVOX, 2009)
Chapbooks
- "A Slow Curve" (Monkey Puzzle Press, 2013)
- Me and My Dog (Poetry New York, 1999)
- In between (Spectacular Diseases, 2000)
- The Passion of Signs (Leave Books, 1994)
Artist book collaborations
- How to Read and Write in the Dark (with Miranda Maher, 1996)
- Words and Pictures (with Sally Young 1996).
External links
- Barbara Henning's blog
- Home Page at Long Island University
- Naropa University Faculty Page
- Quale Press
- Monkey Puzzle Press
- Chax Press
- Spuyten Duyvil
- United Artists
- Jacket Magazine, "Five Stories"
- The Brooklyn Rail, "Black Grapes"
- Slavery Cyberzine, "Cities and Memory"
- Not Enough Night, "Aerial View"
- BlazeVOX Thirty Miles to Rosebud
- Long News In the Short Century
- Penn Sound Readings
- Poem-Essay: "The Content of History Will Be Poetry" Eoagh, Issue 5
- Interview of Barbara Henning by Rafael Otto, Not Enough Night
- Exploration and Experimentation: Interview of Barbara Henning by Shane A., Be You Media