Sara Henning is the author of one other poetry book, A Sweeter Water. Her poems have appeared in Quarterly West, Witness, Passages North, Rhino, Meridian, and Cincinnati Review. In 2015, she won the Crazyhorse Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize. She is a visiting assistant professor of English and creative writing at Stephen F. Austin State University.

Other poems by Sara Henning in Verse Daily:

Books by Sara Henning:

Other poems on the web by Sara Henning:
Three poems
"Crown After Watching the Season Finale of Chicago Fire"
Two poems
Three poems
"Once, I Prayed in the Water"
Five poems
"Prairie Ledger"
"1970"
Three poems
Two poems

Sara Henning's Website.

Sara Henning on Twitter.

About View from True North:

"The poet revisits memories, probes traumatic moments with enviable objectivity offering tender forgiveness or issuing firm judgments on the self as the case may be. And while the locus of these lyrics is that of personal experience, the poems offer a powerful indictment of the culture of violence against, and degradation of, women surrounding the speaker. The poems deliver these psychological, social and political insights with a great deal of esthetic pleasure. We are quickly and powerfully drawn into the world of these poems and into the experiences of the speaker, and the by the end of our reading we find that traces of these experiences have lodged themselves within us, changing us. None of this powerful effect could have been achieved without the poet's choice and manipulation of language, which is always intuitive and surprising, creating word by word a group of poems that moves and enlightens."
—Khaled Mattawa

"Sara Henning's poems search through the past and present, never turning an eye from the pain of loss: a grandfather's death and a father's suicide. Both family portrait and mirror, each poem is rendered with lyrical precision and quiet reverie as they present a scarred life, the wounds healing but not yet closed. The speaker here claims to be the 'heiress of disaster,' and though much of her inheritance is loss, she shapes it, poem by poem, into strength."
—Dorianne Laux

"Sara Henning writes in the proud tradition of such contemporary masters as James Wright, Lorine Niedecker, and Stanley Plumly. Like them, she understands that the task of relating family history is sometimes indistinguishable from lamentation. Also like them, she situates her poems in the hardscrabble precincts of the rural Midwest, locales upon which she bestows a troubled grace—thanks to her formal elegance, her startling metaphors, and her dexterous command of narrative. View from True North is a grave and bracing debut, a collection of unusual promise."
—David Wojahn

"The impeccable crafting, formal mastery, and literary intelligence of View from True North all function as a brave counterbalance to the harrowing material at its core. What shores up the valor of this book's acute witnessing gaze is its language—lush, lustrous, hammered into archetype: 'Jags of heat-whelmed ice too sultry / not to thieve through the specular reflection / spiral into a raid of light'—its language as quantum physics, zeroing in on tragedy at the atomic level, at the semiotic level, the tyrant's ashes 'a collage of signs enticing / the next great signifier.' Henning's ravishing music is in revolt against the trauma of the book's narrative, just as her sonnet sequences provide the ballast of history, of virtuosity. Sara Henning, a 'trickster,' 'an heiress of disaster,' has composed a radical masterpiece."
—Diane Seuss