Readings

Everybody’s Press Reading, Leroy's Place, Brooklyn, August 13, 2022.

Unnameable Books Reading with Kimberly Lyons and Maureen Owen, Brooklyn, October 26, 2022.

Hanging Loose Launch of Girlfriend, Young Ethel's, Brooklyn, NY, May 4, 2025. 

Village Story Salon Reading Series, Hudson Park Library, NYC, May 8, 2025.
‍ ‍Q & A

Detroit Public Library Reading, July 18, 2025  

Live Mag! Lifetime Achievement Award, introduced by Jeffrey Cypher Wright, Bowery Poetry Club, New York. Reading a poem from Girlfriend and from “Boys & Men”.  February 18, 2026.

Girlfriend

About

Girlfriend is a collection of poetic prose short-shorts about my relationships with girl and women friends from childhood through the present. I like to think about the collection as a meditation, a string of beads. Included are friends, family, teachers, mentors and certain women artists, authors and characters who were meaningful to me at important moments in my life. The writing wavers between poem and prose, like a collage of consciousness, following the way my remembering mind intersects with my poetics.

Reviews

• Jim Feast. “Friends Also Make Time to Relax Together.” Heavy Feather Review, May 6, 2026.

• Pat Nolan, Parole Blog, October 25, 2025

• Geri Lipschultz, “Girlfriend by Barbara Henning,” Mom Egg Review, August 1, 2025

• Michael Londra, “Ode to Sisterhood — Barbara Henning’s Girlfriend.”The Arts Fuse. June 28, 2025

Interview

• Sean Glatch. “Interview; Barbara Henning on “Girlfriend” and the Craft of Writing Poetic Memoir.” Writers.com September 15, 2025.

Publications

• "Kay (Johnson)," "HD (Doolittle)," "Maureen (Owen)." The Brooklyn Rail. September 2025.

• “Jean Rhys,” “Marie,” “Karen,” “Kay,” “Virginia Woolf,” “Sylvia,” and “Lisa.” Hanging Loose Magazine,  Issue 116 (Fall 2024).

• “Esther (1),” “HD,” “Esther (2),” “Lorine,” “Elena,” and “Cari,” “Louisa,” and “Elsa.”  Hurricane Review, Issue 22. January 2025.

• “Marlene,” “Donna,” “Linda,” “Lucy,” “Faye,” “Bernadette,” “Nancy (1),” “Kathy,” “Norma,” “Grace,” “Marguerite,” “Mary,” “Luanne,” “Marie,” “Georgia,” “Julia,” “Harryette,” “Gloria,” “Miranda,” “Julie,” “Martine,” “Jane” and “Nancy (2)”. Heavy Feather Review, August 2024. 

• “Lorine,” “H.D.” and “Mina”.  The Solitary Plover: Lorine Niedecker Newsletter, Summer 2024.

• “Dot & Me,” Cindy,” “Eileen,” “Janet,” “Sharon,” “Kathy V,” and “Suzie” in Hanging Loose Magazine,  Issue 115 (Spring 2024). Print..

• “Käthe Kollwitz,” “Ferne,” “Ginny,” “Patti” and “Linnée,” MER: Motherhood Literature & Art, March 14, 2024.

• “Brenda and the Twins,” “Catherine Earnshaw,” “Emily Dickinson,” “Anele Rubin,” “Bobbie Louise Hawkins,” The Hurricane Review, Issue 21, Spring 2024.

• “Dot & Me,” Cindy,” “Eileen,” “Janet,” “Sharon,” “Kathy V,” “Suzie,” “Jean Rhys,” “Marie,” “Karen,” “Kay,” “Virginia Woolf,” “Sylvia,” and “Lisa.” Forthcoming Hanging Loose Magazine,  Issues 115 (Spring 2024) and 116 (Fall 2024).

• “Sally Young,”  Live Mag! Issue 20, 2023, print and web.

• “Diane di Prima,” Juleboard, Issue 2, Sept/Oct 2023.

• “Linda & Barb,” “Laura Ingalls Wilder (print),” “Marilyn Meyer,” “Harriette Hartigan,” “Maureen Owen,” “Diane di Prima,” Mom Egg Review, October 14, 2023.