BIO-EN BIBLIOGRAFISCHE SCHETS (IN HET ENGELS)
Nancy A. Henry
101 Monroe Avenue Westbrook, ME 04092 207-415-6105 mailto:
nahenry61@yahoo.com
EDUCATION:
Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, 1981
St. Andrews Presbyterian College, Laurinburg, NC
J.D., University of Maine School of Law, 1986
Portland, Maine
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Adjunct Professor of English Composition and Literature
Southern Maine Community College, South Portland, ME August 2002-present.
PUBLICATIONS:
Full-length collections:
Our Lady of Let’s All Sing. Sheltering Pines Press, 2007
"She is tender, insightful, compassionate, like William Stafford; has a cutting wit
like Dorothy Parker, Anne Sexton, Philip Larkin--but she's all Nancy Henry,
with her special voice, and she's in full bloom here. Henry dances her part in the
poetry of our time beautifully, crisply and eloquently. I never want this
insightful, beautifully executed book to be beyond my arm's reach".
--Ronald H. Bayes, Author of Guises and Umapine Tetralogy
“Such spirit, such sensuality! Whether she’s in the kitchen or courtroom,
classroom or bedroom, Nancy Henry is acutely aware of what she calls “the
savage gaze of grace”, a grace that leads us out of the “house of shame” and
into a place where “there is no more shelter, only passageway”. The music of
these poems wells up from a life that is deep and full. Nancy Henry is a poet of
generosity and appetite, whose gift is equally adept in lament and praise.
--Betsy Sholl, Poet Laureate of Maine, author of The Red Line, Don’t
Explain, Late Psalm, and others.
“When you’ve finished these poems you’re going to envy people who are
lucky enough to know Nancy. Because you’ll see how full of love and fun she
is. Because her book ends in joy as naturally as a bird lights on a tree and you’re
going to want some more of that. But don’t think this book is simplistic. It’s
not…You’ll have your own favorites. And by the time you finish finding them,
you’ll feel like dancing, too.”
--Lola Haskins, author of Desire Lines, Extranjera, Castings, and others.
“Nancy Henry’s poems pack a consistent, deft wallop. She is tuned to the
frequencies of the soul as it wails, laughs, romps and simply feels how much
there is to feel in our various moments. Like someone driving through the night,
she doesn’t quit until she has gotten to where she must go. That place is
Emotional Truth, a town we all need to visit”.
--Baron Wormser, Poet Laureate of Maine 2000-2006, author of Mulroney
and Others, Subject Matter, The Road Washes Out in the Spring, and
others.
Chapbooks:
Anything Can Happen. MuscleHead Press, 2002
Anything Can Happen is a lovely, quiet collection of thirty-five poems... Ms.
Henry’s voice, though quiet, is not humorless. And while she is obviously a
sympathetic observer of the human condition, she also holds people accountable
for their actions, her own included. She is very good at seeing life from a wide
variety of viewpoints, and at distilling what she sees into a few telling lines. Most
important, she has not lost her sense of wonder, which, when it comes to
poetry, is an element as basic as fire and as necessary as water. --William
Michaelian, in News and Reviews
Hard. MuscleHead Press, 2003
The hard-hitting, honest poems in Nancy Henry’s HARD come of her
experience working with severely head-injured autistic teens at a rehabilitation
center. Henry brings to transfixing notice, the everyday atmosphere and
wrenching dramas of our willed ignorings…When someone we love is dying,
has a stroke, when we have been there with them through it, when we have
done what we must, we know the truth of Henry’s final line in ICE, "It’s all we
can do."-- Ted Bookey in Poetrybay
Eros/Ion. Moon Pie Press, 2004
“These poems are imbued with a sensual honesty, inviting the reader to "be my
Chagall lover / float with me above a small chaotic town / our silks and fingers
tangled up together / in a storm of crabapple blossoms." Intimacy is evident in a
breath, a whisper, the smell of a lover's pillow. This is the altar of the body,
mind, and spirit; the small worlds that swell and crumble with a kiss.” --Jalina
Mhyana in Rock Salt Plum
Europe on $5 a Day. Moon Pie Press, 2005
“Poem after poem in this book is filled with language and images that keep you
on the edge of your seat--either from laughter or titillation. Though, what gives
this collection its real life is Henry's intelligence, which imbues each poem with
poignancy, openness, and a genuine compassion for the world and the people
around her.”--Marita O’Neill, in Animus
Books Co-edited
A Sense of Place: Collected Maine Poems. Bay River Press, 2002. [co-edited
with Alice Persons and Lillian Kennedy].
A Moxie and a Moon Pie: The Best of Moon Pie Press, Volume One. Moon
Pie Press, DATE [co-edited with Alice Persons].
Full Moon Rising: The Best of Moon Pie Press, Volume Two. Moon Pie Press,
2006. [co-edited with Alice Persons].
Innumerable Machines in My Mind: Found Poetry in the Papers of Thomas A.
Edison. Dr. Blaine McCormick, Moon Pie Press, 2005 [co-edited with Alice
Persons].
In addition to the above full-length collection, as founder, co-editor and
publisher of Moon Pie Press, I have (with Alice Persons) published twenty-five
chapbooks from 2003-2007. The work of several Moon Pie Press poets has
been featured on “The Writers’ Almanac” by Garrison Keillor.
Anthologies
Off the Record: An Anthology of Poetry by Lawyers, The Legal Studies Forum,
Vol. 28, Numbers 1&2 (2004), Jim Elkins, ed. Burning the Want Ads, Jung’s
Motel, A Poet’s Wedding Vows, Her Last Postcard, The Wednesday Night
Poetry Society, Motor Court Retreat, Darla Learns to Say Love, Eileen, Barter,
Worm Theology, Postcard From Earth, The Tree-Climber’s Mother 1964,
Gusto, Re-Incarnate, Terminus, Death of the Old Dog, Baby’s First Bath, To a
Nameless Child, Orientation, Showing Up.
Velvet Avalanche: an Anthology of Erotic Poetry. Arlene Ang, ed. (2006),
Aubade.
Best of Branches. Uccelli Press (2004), Fox Crosses Our Land.
Songs of Innocence and Experience. ed. Michael M. Pendragon (2004) ,
Opportunity.
A Sense of Place. Bay River Press (2002), Driving to Court Down Lisbon Street.
Fierce With Reality: an Anthology of Literature on Aging, 2d Ed. Margaret
Cruikshank, ed. (2006), Pool With Dad.
Print and Electronic Journal Publications
My poems have been published in over 200 literary journals in the US, UK
and AU, including: Rattle, Southern Humanities Review, Atlanta Review, St.
Anthony Messenger, GSU Review, Yemassee, Legal Studies Forum, Roanoke
Review, Hawaii Pacific Review, Nimrod, Poetry International, The Hollins
Critic, Pudding, The Café Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Creosote, Iris,
Kalliope, Calyx, Sierra Nevada Poetry Review, The Writers’ Almanac,
Forpoetry.com, Gathering of the Tribes, The Raintown Review, Cream City
Review, 5 A.M., Abbey, Presbyterian Record, Phoebe, Maine Times,
Puckerbrush Review, Beauty for Ashes Poetry Review, Monkey’s Fist,
Iconoclast, Animus, Branches Quarterly, Whimperbang, Fantastic Stories,The
Long Islander, Diner, Tryst, Liquid Muse, Plum Ruby Review, , Rock Salt
Plum, Gin Bender Poetry Review, Poems Niederngasse, Poetrybay, Pedestal,
Sometimes City, Three Candles, Carnelian, Hawaii Pacifi Revew, Epicenter ,
Iconoclast, Drexel Online Journal, Time and Space, Conspire, Porcupine, Melic
Review, Isles of Mist, Avocet, Penny Dreadful, Ancient Paths, Apples &
Oranges, Black Spring Review, BOGG, Dream International Quarterly,
NowHereNowhere, Hazmat Review, Sweet Annie and Sweet Pea Review,
Barbaric Yawp, Fauquier Poetry Journal, Time of Singing, Small Brushes,
Adoration, Pine Island Review of New England Poetry, Nanny Fanny, Midwest
Poetry Review, The Synergyst, Poetry Nottingham International (UK),
Obsessed With Pipework (UK), Crosscut Literary Magazine, Poetry Depth
Quarterly, American Poets and Poetry, Wayfarer (UK), Shemom, Frisson, Iota
(UK), The New Writer (UK), Arsenic Lobster, Lucid Moon, Melting Trees
Review, Mobius, A New Song, Nomad’s Choic, Parnassus Lliterary Journal,
Poetry Motel, Small Pond, Ya’Sou!, Writer’s Exchange, LSR, South Boston
Literary Gazette, Hidden Oak, Ruah, Imago (AU), Blood and Fire Review,
Oxford Poetry (UK), Psychopoetica (UK), Blindman’s Rainbow, Red Owl, The
Church World, Eratica, Ibbetson Street Press, The Penwood Review,
WordWrights!, Breakfast All Day (UK), River Oak Review, The Gentle
Survivalist, Harp Strings, Konfluence (UK), Stolen Island Review, The
Frogmore Papers (UK), White Crow.
Recent Honors and Awards
Second Place, Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance Poetry Contest, 2003, Tea
Green.
Atlanta Review International Merit Award, 2000, Beauty Weekend.
Honorable Mention, Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror Terry Windling and Ellen
Datlow, Ed., 2005, Opportunity.
Fairfield Review Reader’s Choice Award, Fall 2005, Melbourne Beach.
Five Pushcart Prize nominations.
The Writers’ Almanac, National Public Radio, February 11, 2006, http:
//writersalmanac.publicradio.org/programs/2006/02/06/index.html, People Who
Take Care
Poetry Readings and Events
I have featured as a reader at many venues in Maine and throughout New
England, including the Cantab Lounge (Cambridge, MA); Stone Soup Poets
(Cambridge, MA); Portsmouth Jazz and Poetry Festival (Portsmouth, NH);
Maine Arts Festival, Brunswick, ME; the Terry Plunkett Poetry Festival,
University of Maine at Augusta; Festivo, Belfast, ME; Belfast Poetry and Arts
Walk, (Belfast, ME); Maine Poets for Peace Reading and Rally (Portland,
ME); and have had interviews and broadcasts of my poetry on Maine Public
Radio, WMPG, and appeared as part of the poetry ensemble “Poets on the
Halfshell” on the spoken word program ”Stand Up Poets” (WATV Cable TV)
with host Jack McCarthy.
Teaching Interests:
English Composition, Introduction to Literature, Poetry, Creative Writing,
Business Writing, Legal Research and Writing, Ethical Dilemma, Introduction to
Law, Introductory level humanities courses.
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Nancy A. Henry
101 Monroe Avenue Westbrook, ME 04092 207-415-6105 mailto:
nahenry61@yahoo.com
EDUCATION:
Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, 1981
St. Andrews Presbyterian College, Laurinburg, NC
J.D., University of Maine School of Law, 1986
Portland, Maine
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Adjunct Professor of English Composition and Literature
Southern Maine Community College, South Portland, ME August 2002-present.
PUBLICATIONS:
Full-length collections:
Our Lady of Let’s All Sing. Sheltering Pines Press, 2007
"She is tender, insightful, compassionate, like William Stafford; has a cutting wit
like Dorothy Parker, Anne Sexton, Philip Larkin--but she's all Nancy Henry,
with her special voice, and she's in full bloom here. Henry dances her part in the
poetry of our time beautifully, crisply and eloquently. I never want this
insightful, beautifully executed book to be beyond my arm's reach".
--Ronald H. Bayes, Author of Guises and Umapine Tetralogy
“Such spirit, such sensuality! Whether she’s in the kitchen or courtroom,
classroom or bedroom, Nancy Henry is acutely aware of what she calls “the
savage gaze of grace”, a grace that leads us out of the “house of shame” and
into a place where “there is no more shelter, only passageway”. The music of
these poems wells up from a life that is deep and full. Nancy Henry is a poet of
generosity and appetite, whose gift is equally adept in lament and praise.
--Betsy Sholl, Poet Laureate of Maine, author of The Red Line, Don’t
Explain, Late Psalm, and others.
“When you’ve finished these poems you’re going to envy people who are
lucky enough to know Nancy. Because you’ll see how full of love and fun she
is. Because her book ends in joy as naturally as a bird lights on a tree and you’re
going to want some more of that. But don’t think this book is simplistic. It’s
not…You’ll have your own favorites. And by the time you finish finding them,
you’ll feel like dancing, too.”
--Lola Haskins, author of Desire Lines, Extranjera, Castings, and others.
“Nancy Henry’s poems pack a consistent, deft wallop. She is tuned to the
frequencies of the soul as it wails, laughs, romps and simply feels how much
there is to feel in our various moments. Like someone driving through the night,
she doesn’t quit until she has gotten to where she must go. That place is
Emotional Truth, a town we all need to visit”.
--Baron Wormser, Poet Laureate of Maine 2000-2006, author of Mulroney
and Others, Subject Matter, The Road Washes Out in the Spring, and
others.
Chapbooks:
Anything Can Happen. MuscleHead Press, 2002
Anything Can Happen is a lovely, quiet collection of thirty-five poems... Ms.
Henry’s voice, though quiet, is not humorless. And while she is obviously a
sympathetic observer of the human condition, she also holds people accountable
for their actions, her own included. She is very good at seeing life from a wide
variety of viewpoints, and at distilling what she sees into a few telling lines. Most
important, she has not lost her sense of wonder, which, when it comes to
poetry, is an element as basic as fire and as necessary as water. --William
Michaelian, in News and Reviews
Hard. MuscleHead Press, 2003
The hard-hitting, honest poems in Nancy Henry’s HARD come of her
experience working with severely head-injured autistic teens at a rehabilitation
center. Henry brings to transfixing notice, the everyday atmosphere and
wrenching dramas of our willed ignorings…When someone we love is dying,
has a stroke, when we have been there with them through it, when we have
done what we must, we know the truth of Henry’s final line in ICE, "It’s all we
can do."-- Ted Bookey in Poetrybay
Eros/Ion. Moon Pie Press, 2004
“These poems are imbued with a sensual honesty, inviting the reader to "be my
Chagall lover / float with me above a small chaotic town / our silks and fingers
tangled up together / in a storm of crabapple blossoms." Intimacy is evident in a
breath, a whisper, the smell of a lover's pillow. This is the altar of the body,
mind, and spirit; the small worlds that swell and crumble with a kiss.” --Jalina
Mhyana in Rock Salt Plum
Europe on $5 a Day. Moon Pie Press, 2005
“Poem after poem in this book is filled with language and images that keep you
on the edge of your seat--either from laughter or titillation. Though, what gives
this collection its real life is Henry's intelligence, which imbues each poem with
poignancy, openness, and a genuine compassion for the world and the people
around her.”--Marita O’Neill, in Animus
Books Co-edited
A Sense of Place: Collected Maine Poems. Bay River Press, 2002. [co-edited
with Alice Persons and Lillian Kennedy].
A Moxie and a Moon Pie: The Best of Moon Pie Press, Volume One. Moon
Pie Press, DATE [co-edited with Alice Persons].
Full Moon Rising: The Best of Moon Pie Press, Volume Two. Moon Pie Press,
2006. [co-edited with Alice Persons].
Innumerable Machines in My Mind: Found Poetry in the Papers of Thomas A.
Edison. Dr. Blaine McCormick, Moon Pie Press, 2005 [co-edited with Alice
Persons].
In addition to the above full-length collection, as founder, co-editor and
publisher of Moon Pie Press, I have (with Alice Persons) published twenty-five
chapbooks from 2003-2007. The work of several Moon Pie Press poets has
been featured on “The Writers’ Almanac” by Garrison Keillor.
Anthologies
Off the Record: An Anthology of Poetry by Lawyers, The Legal Studies Forum,
Vol. 28, Numbers 1&2 (2004), Jim Elkins, ed. Burning the Want Ads, Jung’s
Motel, A Poet’s Wedding Vows, Her Last Postcard, The Wednesday Night
Poetry Society, Motor Court Retreat, Darla Learns to Say Love, Eileen, Barter,
Worm Theology, Postcard From Earth, The Tree-Climber’s Mother 1964,
Gusto, Re-Incarnate, Terminus, Death of the Old Dog, Baby’s First Bath, To a
Nameless Child, Orientation, Showing Up.
Velvet Avalanche: an Anthology of Erotic Poetry. Arlene Ang, ed. (2006),
Aubade.
Best of Branches. Uccelli Press (2004), Fox Crosses Our Land.
Songs of Innocence and Experience. ed. Michael M. Pendragon (2004) ,
Opportunity.
A Sense of Place. Bay River Press (2002), Driving to Court Down Lisbon Street.
Fierce With Reality: an Anthology of Literature on Aging, 2d Ed. Margaret
Cruikshank, ed. (2006), Pool With Dad.
Print and Electronic Journal Publications
My poems have been published in over 200 literary journals in the US, UK
and AU, including: Rattle, Southern Humanities Review, Atlanta Review, St.
Anthony Messenger, GSU Review, Yemassee, Legal Studies Forum, Roanoke
Review, Hawaii Pacific Review, Nimrod, Poetry International, The Hollins
Critic, Pudding, The Café Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Creosote, Iris,
Kalliope, Calyx, Sierra Nevada Poetry Review, The Writers’ Almanac,
Forpoetry.com, Gathering of the Tribes, The Raintown Review, Cream City
Review, 5 A.M., Abbey, Presbyterian Record, Phoebe, Maine Times,
Puckerbrush Review, Beauty for Ashes Poetry Review, Monkey’s Fist,
Iconoclast, Animus, Branches Quarterly, Whimperbang, Fantastic Stories,The
Long Islander, Diner, Tryst, Liquid Muse, Plum Ruby Review, , Rock Salt
Plum, Gin Bender Poetry Review, Poems Niederngasse, Poetrybay, Pedestal,
Sometimes City, Three Candles, Carnelian, Hawaii Pacifi Revew, Epicenter ,
Iconoclast, Drexel Online Journal, Time and Space, Conspire, Porcupine, Melic
Review, Isles of Mist, Avocet, Penny Dreadful, Ancient Paths, Apples &
Oranges, Black Spring Review, BOGG, Dream International Quarterly,
NowHereNowhere, Hazmat Review, Sweet Annie and Sweet Pea Review,
Barbaric Yawp, Fauquier Poetry Journal, Time of Singing, Small Brushes,
Adoration, Pine Island Review of New England Poetry, Nanny Fanny, Midwest
Poetry Review, The Synergyst, Poetry Nottingham International (UK),
Obsessed With Pipework (UK), Crosscut Literary Magazine, Poetry Depth
Quarterly, American Poets and Poetry, Wayfarer (UK), Shemom, Frisson, Iota
(UK), The New Writer (UK), Arsenic Lobster, Lucid Moon, Melting Trees
Review, Mobius, A New Song, Nomad’s Choic, Parnassus Lliterary Journal,
Poetry Motel, Small Pond, Ya’Sou!, Writer’s Exchange, LSR, South Boston
Literary Gazette, Hidden Oak, Ruah, Imago (AU), Blood and Fire Review,
Oxford Poetry (UK), Psychopoetica (UK), Blindman’s Rainbow, Red Owl, The
Church World, Eratica, Ibbetson Street Press, The Penwood Review,
WordWrights!, Breakfast All Day (UK), River Oak Review, The Gentle
Survivalist, Harp Strings, Konfluence (UK), Stolen Island Review, The
Frogmore Papers (UK), White Crow.
Recent Honors and Awards
Second Place, Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance Poetry Contest, 2003, Tea
Green.
Atlanta Review International Merit Award, 2000, Beauty Weekend.
Honorable Mention, Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror Terry Windling and Ellen
Datlow, Ed., 2005, Opportunity.
Fairfield Review Reader’s Choice Award, Fall 2005, Melbourne Beach.
Five Pushcart Prize nominations.
The Writers’ Almanac, National Public Radio, February 11, 2006, http:
//writersalmanac.publicradio.org/programs/2006/02/06/index.html, People Who
Take Care
Poetry Readings and Events
I have featured as a reader at many venues in Maine and throughout New
England, including the Cantab Lounge (Cambridge, MA); Stone Soup Poets
(Cambridge, MA); Portsmouth Jazz and Poetry Festival (Portsmouth, NH);
Maine Arts Festival, Brunswick, ME; the Terry Plunkett Poetry Festival,
University of Maine at Augusta; Festivo, Belfast, ME; Belfast Poetry and Arts
Walk, (Belfast, ME); Maine Poets for Peace Reading and Rally (Portland,
ME); and have had interviews and broadcasts of my poetry on Maine Public
Radio, WMPG, and appeared as part of the poetry ensemble “Poets on the
Halfshell” on the spoken word program ”Stand Up Poets” (WATV Cable TV)
with host Jack McCarthy.
Teaching Interests:
English Composition, Introduction to Literature, Poetry, Creative Writing,
Business Writing, Legal Research and Writing, Ethical Dilemma, Introduction to
Law, Introductory level humanities courses.
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