A Day Like Today

“Reading Barbara Henning's poems is always completely refreshing. Perhaps it has to do with that "swerve" between the bumpy pavement under the bicycle wheel and the ring of radiation around the Earth, from the political to the completely mundane. I get caught up in the poem's movement. So deft, so seemingly easy, with an almost folk-art clarity in the weaving, these poems nonetheless make things really weird—I don't get it!—and suddenly I'm in the world, "to be here right now"—how did I get here?”
—Matvei Yankelvich

Reviews:

Review by Jim Feast, Otter Magazine, 2015, Issue 6
I’m talking about her ability [IN A DAY LIKE TODAY] to shift her view of the world so fundamentally, by imbricating some perspectives from India, so that even a person who lives at the center of a world empire, can think and write with a moral trueness.

Review by Jon Curley at Hyperallergic (August 8, 2015)

Review by Tyrone Williams, American Book Review (Vol. 37, No. 1, Nov/Dec 2015)

Review by Rob McClennan (June 27, 2015)