Sara Henning is the author of the poetry collections Burn (Southern Illinois University Press, 2024), a Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Editor’s Selection; Terra Incognita (Ohio University Press, 2022), winner of the 2021 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize; and View from True North (Southern Illinois University Press, 2018), winner of the 2017 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition Award and the 2019 High Plains Book Award for poetry. She teaches at Marshall University.
Poetry
Fall 2025
Map of the Moon (2006)
The Kenyon Review · “Map of the Moon (2006)” by Sara Henning A man cut a map of the moon into my body. It’s knifed on my thigh where a […]
Poetry
Fall 2025
First Galaxy (1990)
The Kenyon Review · “First Galaxy (1990)” by Sara Henning A galaxy churns in my right elbow, that’s what I call it now, scars braiding their fever straight across my […]