Selected Interviews & Mini Reviews

• Hanging Loose Press, “Catching up with Barbara Henning,” February 29, 2026.

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

• Lisa Rogal. “Interview: Barbara Henning “On Long News: In the Short Century.” January 28, 2025.

• Kate Mazzara. “2023 Michigan Notable Author Interview: Conversation with Barbara Henning.” July 10, 2023.

• Zoe Tuck, “An Interview with Barbara Henning.” Germinations, Belladonna Blog, September 2022.

• Sean Glatch. “Interview: Barbara Henning’s Ferne, a Detroit Story.”Writers.com, February 22, 2022.

• Sean Glatch, “Interview: Barbara Henning Discusses Prompt Book and Finding the Inspiration to Write.”Writers.com, April 6, 2021.

• Jim Feast, “Thought Interruptions, an Interview of Barbara Henning”.Rain Taxi. Online Edition, Summer 2021.

• Ryan Nowlin, “What is the Young Poet To Do? An Interview with Barbara Henning,” Boog City #139, February 2021.

• Sound Recordings at Penn Sound.

• Rob McLennan, “12 or 20 (second series) questions with Barbara Henning.” Rob McLennan’s Blog. Wednesday, May 6, 2015

• Debbie Diesen. “Michigander Monday: Barbara Henning.”(Interview) Jumping the Candlestick. December 15, 2014.

• Shelagh C. Shapiro. “Barbara Henning: Interview #277.”  (Interview) Write The Book. On WOMM=LP. (Burlington, Vermont: 6 Jan 2014) t. Podcast address:

• Rafael Otto, “The Significance of Place: an Interview with Barbara Henning.” [Previously at Not Naropa’s Enough Night (Spring 2011)] Now at  Infinite Culture.

Mini Reviews & Poems for Barbara

• Tyrone Williams. Silly Introduction at Wayne State, 1982.

• Jeffrey Miller, Punk Musician & Grad student at Long Island University, ca. 1990.

• David (Jonathan) Snow. “Corner, “ The Cafe Review, 1996.

• Kenneth Wheeler, “Red, White and Black,” Out of Brooklyn, 1999, written 1996 when he was a grad student at LIU.

• Bill Kushner. “Ha,” included in a letter to me, written Feb 6, 2000.

• Cliff Fyman. Dream Poem with Barbara & Eileen, May 15, 2001.

• Charles Alexander “On My Autobiography,” March 14, 2007.

• Burt Kimmelman. “Reading Barbara Henning’s Poems,” Hamilton Stone Review 14 (2008),

• Charles Alexander “Pushing Water 70”in At the Edge of the Sea, Singing Horse Press (2018).

• Kim Lyon. “A Spoon,” sent in an email on Jan 25, 2021 (in response to Barbara’s poem, “The Beauty of Pigeons.”

• Collin Schuster. "Irresistible Waves: Maureen Owen and Barara Henning" in Tomorrow the Birds, February 2021

• Julie Ezelle Patton. Email poem, responding to my Best American Poetry Poem, May 3 2021.

• Jamey Jones poem for Lewis with Barbara, 2021.

• Burt Kimmelman’s "aurora borealis” from Steeple at Sunrise” 2022

• Gloria Frym’s “Pitch” (with email) written after Maureen Owen and Barbara’s Poets on the road, March 12, 2023.

• Anele Rubin’s letter after the bookparty for Girlfriend, August 30, 2025.

• Martine Bellen poem after bookparty for Girlfriend, August 30, 2025.