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.