Girlfriend
Paper: ISBN 979-8-9913377-0-0 $18
Girlfriend is a collection of poetic prose, stories about the girls and women who were important in Henning’s life, beginning in childhood through her older years, including mentors, characters and authors whose writing was important to her. The collection of stories is a celebration of her friendships with women. One by one, the story emerges of a working-class girl who loses her mother as an adolescent, becomes a mother herself, as well as a poet, a novelist and a professor. In Henning’s friendship world––the bohemian communities in Detroit and New York City––one meets artists, poets, fiction writers, literary critics, activists, mothers, yoga practitioners and teachers, among many others.
From loose pages to issue 119 of our magazine, an anthology of over 100 HLP poets, over a decade of the Loose Award for translated works, the Founders prize for first book in its third year, and a bunch of great books in the works, we couldn’t have come this far without you.