Barbara Henning is the author of four novels and nine collections of poetry. Her most recent book, Girlfriend (Hanging Loose Press, 2025), is a collection of prose poems about her girl and women friends from childhood through older age. In 2023, the Library of Michigan awarded Henning a Notable Book Award for Ferne, a Detroit Story, a novelized biography of her mother and the city of Detroit (Spuyten Duyvil, 2022).
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Barbara received the Lifetime Achievement Award from Live Mag! at the Bowery Poetry Club.
February 18, 2026
Books
Girlfriend
Poets on the Road
Take It Down
Ferne
Prompt Book
Digigram
Make Your Mama Proud
Just Like That
A Day Like Today
A Swift Passage
Selected Prose of Bobbie Louise Hawkins
A Slow Curve
Looking Up Harryette Mullen
Cities and Memory
Thirty Miles To Rosebud
My Autobiography
You, Me, and the Insects
Photo Poem Pamphlets
Detective Sentences
Black Lace
In Between
Me and My Dog
How to Read and Write in the Dark
Love Makes Thinking Dark
The Passion of Signs
