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 are 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 isThirty Miles to Rosebud (BlazeVOX 2009).
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Henning was born in Detroit, Michigan, and has lived in New York City from 1983 to present, spending three years living in Tucson, Arizona (2006–2009). 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 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.
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.
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