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Digigram

Barbara Henning’s Digigram is unrelenting in its collaging of reality, visions, and thought buds. Sometimes diaristic and newsy, this is edgy poetry that moves beyond the tricks of fashion. An agitated style centralizes the subjects—heartless immigration policies, women’s rights, weather, racism, virulent patriarchy, compromised democracy, family, daily life, sex, spirituality. In this book we get glimpses of Henning’s assertive and experiential humanism. Pointedly political. Digigram is the work of a major writer.
—Uche Nduka

Digigram pulses in and out like a telegraphic beacon. Both emotional archive and urgent transmis- sion, Barbara Henning records a daily exchange with transnational historic events, the memories of city streets, intimacies both brief and endless. With each digigram a message is passed between the day and the mystery, the event and its shadow, the poet and the whole world.
—Laura Henriksen

Digigram is an expedition through the uneven rhythms in which we’re all immersed, a telegram from our digital travels through the tragedy and the beauty we’re all close to at any moment. Languages culled from all levels of consciousness and experience—political tumult, daily routine, newspaper stories, anonymous conversations, flashes of memory—leap across the hyphens that join each thought-phrase to the next. Sensitive, caring and unwilling to accept the injustice happening the world over, Barbara Henning has given us a vital, life-affirming book.
—Tony Iantosca

Digigram follows the path of Barbara Henning’s daily orbit into the roar and stammer of the universe just outside her apartment door – the politics of the hour, the wandering populace, the upheavals and intervals of all the treasured ordinary. An engaged participant and insightful commentator, Henning defines her times with riveting staccato observation and claims her place as part of that manifold citizenry.
—Maureen Owen

Reviews and Interviews:

• Burt Kimmelman, “Barbara Henning’s Present Tense,”  Marsh Hawk Review, Fall 2021,

• Barbara Henning Reads from Digigram 2021. Penn Sound Daily, August, 2021.

• Kit Robinson, “Poet, Teacher, Citizen, Sage: Review of Digigram” American Book Review, Volume 43, No 3, Fall 2022, pages 135-138.

• Peter Valente, “Telegrams to the World: On Barbara Henning’s Digigram. Talisman 52, 2022.

• Jeffrey Cyphers Wright. “On Digigram,” Review of Digigram by Barbara Henning,” Live Mag!:A Journal of Contemporary Art and Poetry,  #18, 2022.

• Carla Scarano D’Antonio. “Barbara Henning’s Digigram,” The Temz Review, #15, Spring 2021. 

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

• Ryan Nowlin. “Tracking Daily Life: Barbara Henning’s Digigram is Uncommon and Revelatory,” Boog City, #139, Feb 2021.

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

• Jim Feast. “Review of Digigram,” Fifth Estate Anarchist Review of Books, Winter 2021.

• Rob McClennon. Review of Digigram, September 14, 2020.  

• Charles Baxter, card sent to Barbara, December 27, 2020.

Selected Online Publications:

• Seven Poems, The Boog Reader, 2019

• “Ever-Shifting” September 11, 2018

• “On Air, On Land, On Sea” September 28, 2018

• “Do Not Come” Califragile July 28, 2018

• Dispatches Poetry Wars June 2018

• Downtown Brooklyn, Spring 2018

• The Brooklyn Rail, Feb 2018

• Posit: A Journal of Writing and Art, Issue 16, December 2017

• Califragile, December 2017

• Califragile, November 2017

• Recluse, Issue 13, 2017

• Process Note