About me
Matthew E. Henry is the author of six poetry collections, including the Colored page (Sundress Publication, 2022), The Third Renunciation (NYQ Books, 2023), and said the Frog to the scorpion (Harbor Editions, 2024). He is editor-in-chief of The Weight Journaland an associate editor at Rise Up Review. The 2023 winner of the Solstice Literary Magazine Stephen Dunn Prize, MEH’s poetry and prose has been published in ASP Bulletin, Barren Magazine, Massachusetts Review, Mayday, Nixes Mate, Pangyrus, Ploughshares, Porcupine Literary, Shenandoah, Redivider, Terrain, The Worcester Review, and Zone 3, among others. MEH is an educator who received his MFA yet continued to spend money he didn’t have completing an MA in theology and a PhD in education. You can find him at www.MEHPoeting.com writing about education, race, religion, and burning oppressive systems to the ground.