Henrietta Goodman is the author of two previous books: Hungry Moon (Mountain West Poetry Series) and Take What You Want (Beatrice Hawley Award, Alice James Books). Her poems have appeared in Gulf Coast, Field, New England Review, and other journals. She has attended the Marjorie Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency as well as residencies at the Atlantic Center for the Arts and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center. Originally from North Carolina, she lives in Missoula, Montana.

Books by Henrietta Goodman:

Other poems on the web by Henrietta Goodman:
"Gretel"
Two poems
Ten poems

Henrietta Goodman According to Wikipedia.

About All That Held Us:

"All That Held Us is a collection that unfolds breathlessly, one untitled domino upsetting the next, and the next, while the reader stands entranced by the kinetic energy of the topple. These personal and family stories are arrayed like oddments in glass-covered Cornell boxes, with variations of the same item--figs, dogs, wedding rings--meticulously positioned in side-by-side compartments. The Italian sonnets--fresh but true to form--provide the frame for poems that, over and over again, 'spring the traps / to find out whether words would be enough.' They are, and they aren't: I'm enchanted by these poems. I want more."
—Karen Craigo

"...a biting exploration of family and coming of age. The dad is gone but not exactly. The mom and “crazy aunt” form a fascinating (and at times humorous) duo. The cast is small and tight. As Goodman circles round and round her subjects it all becomes more complicated. Each sonnet here finds the author leaning carefully in over the microscope, one eye closed, remembering and re-remembering (and probably re-re-remembering) and recording it all with brilliant Petrarchan snap. What starts out as sifting through ashes ends up a tale of Phoenix rising."
—Michael Earl Craig