Henning Named Co-Winner of Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award

(sarahenningpoet.com) Sara Henning was recently named a co-winner of the 2020 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award, presented by the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College in Paterson, New Jersey.

The award is named in memory of distinguished poet Allen Ginsberg (1926-1927), who grew up in Paterson. Ginsberg, along with other notables such as Jack Kerouac and William S. Burrows formed the core of the “Beat Generation”, which had a profound impact on American literature, culture, and politics in the mid-20th Century.

Henning’s poem, “To My Husband, Driving into Bad Weather” was selected to share the honor alongside Ray Petersen’s “What I Wanted When I Was Twelve”. Both of these poems are featured in the 2021 edition of the Paterson Literary Review, which is available now.