L.I. Henley
writer and artist
Selected Creative Nonfiction in Periodicals
Terrain, “Essay Made of Little, Lonely Bones”
Calyx, “The Weeping Fig Waits for No One”
Fourth Genre, “Comfortability”
The Southern Review, “Dispatches from the Ridge”
The Southeast Review, “Of Wormholes and Junk Monsters”
The Southern Humanities Review, “A Blur on the Spine”
The Cincinnati Review, “On Bearing and 'Other Options'”
The Los Angeles Review, “The Last Resort”
Bellingham Review, “Where the Green Grass Ends”
Brevity, “Night Patrol”
Arts & Letters, “Drive! (You’re Lost Little Girl, You’re Lost)”
Luna Arcana, “Please Cut This Up: An Essay on Pain and Memory”
Ninth Letter, “Insect Woman”
Smokelong Quarterly, “Foldable Essay with Wet Bee”
American Literary Review, “Unusual Clouds”
Selected Poetry in Periodicals
Mayday Magazine, “Speaks the Dark Lobe”
Bracken, “Deer and Rifle,” “Hare,” “Deer”
Tupelo Quarterly, four poems
Tinderbox, “How do you resist longing?”
Diode, “What have you abandoned,” “When do you start over?”
Tupelo Quarterly, “What does hunger feel like?”
Exposition Review, “On Light and Leaving: call and response,”
Spillway, “Echolocate”
Zone 3, “The Boy and the Hare,” “The Taxidermist and the Black Bear”
Phoebe, “How to deal with your first death”
Superstition Review, “From water to water,” “Call it Cloud”
DIAGRAM, “Prom Night in Branford”
Stirring, “how do you let yourself be fooled?”
Cider Press Review, “The Orchard Spider & the Grub”
Glass, “Everywhere Is the Finding of Not Wings”
Waxwing, “She was dancing like something that twists,” “It’s true I seen them kissing”
Bateau, “The white doctor gave me white pills”
Rust + Moth, “There Is so Much to Say about Lightning”
Entropy, “The Grackle”
RHINO, “Buying Food”
Selected Artwork/ Visual Poetry in Periodicals
Up the Staircase Quarterly, “With a Light You Find Above Your Head,” “Breakable Between Layers,” “A WomanTraveling Alone,” “Climbing, Always Climbing”
Adroit, “Crowds of Ten or More”
Calyx, “A weight you accept,” and “Recall is another word for postponed”
DIAGRAM, “Invitations and Replies,” “The women are seated by the men”
Pretty Owl Poetry, “A private dinner,” “When instead,” “Two people are temporary arrangements,”
The Indianapolis Review, “The woman you didn't invite,” “Would you like to dance?” “Her name is a small diagram”
Thrush, “One fills and refills,” “If there is no spoon in the saltcellar”
Waxwing, “Avoid seating two people next to one another”
Visual Reviews and Other Oddities
Sugar House Review, Sweet Sixteen Anthology