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Oct.26.2011
(Originally posted at Hawaii Pacific Review.)
By Anasin Beth Conner
Dianna Henning’s collection of poetry, The Broken Bone Tongue, journeys to the marrow of human emotion and experience, contemplating grief and loss, personal discovery, love and family, and the beauty and mystery of the natural...
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Feb.17.2011
My very favorite piece of African American literature is Robert Hayden’s poem “Those Winter Sundays.” For my ear, this is a perfectly realized poem and one that is earned through deep feeling. The first person speaker in the poem regrets his failure to appreciate his father who got up each morning...
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Oct.07.2010
APOLOGY FROM THE SLAMMER
When you’re a kid you don’t think about your brothers and sister the way you do later. It’s only when you’re older that you wish you’d done better by them. You could have taken them early on, after your mother’s death, up to Nova Scotia to Grandmother Cassie’s, made sure...
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About Dianna
Dianna Henning participated in a ’08 California Council for the Humanities Stories Grant and taught creative writing to Native Americans at the Susanville CA Rancheria—Maidu, Pit River and Paiute—developing their stories & poems. She helped develop an...