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Barbara Henning was born on 26 October, 1948 in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., is an American poet and fiction writer (born 1948). Discover Barbara Henning's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 75 years old?

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Occupation Poet writer
Age 75 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 26 October, 1948
Birthday 26 October
Birthplace Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Nationality American

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1948

Barbara Henning (born October 26, 1948) is an American poet and fiction writer.

She is the author of eight books of poetry, four novels and a series of photo-poem pamphlets.

Her recent novelized biography of her mother, Ferne, a Detroit Story, was named by the Library of Michigan as a Notable Book of 2023.

She is also the editor of a collection of interviews, [Looking Up Harryette Mullen: Sleeping with the Dictionary and Other Works] and The Selected Prose of Bobbie Louise Hawkins.

Her work has been published in numerous journals.

1970

See her photo-documentary Make Your Mama Proud Here she tells the story of her relationship with Allen Saperstein and friends in the 1970s in Detroit's artistic Cass Corridor.

1984

After finishing her MA at WSU in 1984, she moved to NYC with her children and their father, Allen Saperstein.

1988

In 1988, Lewis Warsh published her first book, Smoking in the Twilight Bar; the Twilight Bar was a neon sign that hung over the bar at Alvin's Finer, a deli, as well as a blues and rock club in the Cass Corridor of Detroit.

1992

In 1992, she founded the literary magazine Downtown Brooklyn: A Journal of Writing, an English Department publication at Long Island University.

1993

From 1993-1995, Henning was the editor of Long News In the Short Century, a journal of art and writing.

Sally Young and Miranda Maher were the Art Editors.

2003

In 2003 Henning began composing, publishing and distributing to a list of poets, a limited artist's series of her photo-poem pamphlets under the imprint of Long News.

They include My Animal Eyeball, The Dinner, Twelve Green Rooms, Twirling, the Spirit Flies Off Like a Falcon, Hari Om, Cities & Memory, An Arc Falling into the Bougainvillea, 7th Street, The Animal I Am, Aham Asmi Aham Asmi, Black Grapes, My Autobiography, Found in the Park, Up North, Aerial View. Many of these have been collected together in her Chax Press book, Cities and Memory and her Quale Press Book, A Swift Passage.

2012

Besides writing poetry, novels and essays Henning has also edited three books:Selected Prose of Bobbie Louise Hawkins (BlazeVox Books, 2012); Looking Up Harryette Mullen: Interviews on Sleeping With the Dictionary and Other Works (Belladonna 2011); and Prompt Book: Experiments for Writing Fiction and Poetry (Spuyten Duyvil 2019).

2020

Some recent books of poetry and prose are Digigram (United Artists Books 2020); a novel, Just Like That (Spuyten Duyvil 2018); and a conceptual project, a collection of sonnets composed from 999 passages from 999 books in her collection, entitled My Autobiography (United Artists Books, 2007).

Prompt Book: Experiments in Poetry and Fiction is forthcoming from Spuyten Duyvil 2020). Poets on the Road, a Blog, soon to be released by City Point Press, celebrates Henning and Maureen Owen's extensive reading road trip in 2018 across the USA.

Barbara Henning was born in Detroit, Michigan and lives in Brooklyn.

She is Professor Emerita from Long Island University in Brooklyn where she taught creative writing and literature.

She has also taught for Naropa University, Wayne State University, Queens College, Writers.com and many workshops.

Henning grew up in working class suburb outside Detroit.

She graduated from East Detroit High School and then from Wayne State University.