Local author Dianna Henning’s book “Cathedral of the Hand,” has received an extremely positive review by Bob Stanley. See article in the Lassen Times: https://www.lassennews.com/local-authors-book-receives-stunning–review/
Just published in Poemeleon a journal for poetry. Part of the museum and poetry compilations called “The Plague Papers.” You can read it here: https://poemeleon.me/van-goghs-the-potato-eaters-dianne-mackinnon-henning
Animal Mission In the beginning there was promise.We lived together in harmony, took only what was needed and that was sufficient.The Shepherd walked with his…
From the Northeast Kingdom When the black bearskin hung from the treelike a rug drying on the clothesline, the hunter recounted how he started an…
Rhubarb Season A rooster crowed at the firststrike of light, awaking the stonechild who held her own child, and was herselfa child. In England, the…
Dianna Henning – email: gammonmackinnon@diannahenning.com, PO Box 184, Janesville, CA 96114 Founder/Facilitator of Thompson Peak Writer’s Workshop in Janesville, CA Area-Coordinator for California Poets in…
“All Winter I Remained With the Dead,” “How Many Times Mayakovsky,” and “Black-capped Chickadees” by Dianna MacKinnon Henning appeared in Issue 19 and can be read here.
We’d love to hear more about these three poems.
The Leaf Cat If you stare at something long enough it assumes a life all its own.Even the wind carries a child in a rucksack.The…
Mother once told me my wakefulness tookup an entire floor—that’s why I house myself in the woods. Allthe tree knows of cover is moss. All…
When my husband caught the trapped hummingbird and freed it from the screened-in porch, his big hands, a woven bird’s nest, a few fingers opened…