Margie’s Book Nook hosts Saturday book signing for Dianna Henning’s “Rucksacks for the Leaf Cat

Mosey on over  to Margie’s Book Nook for a book signing of “Rucksacks for the Leaf Cat” with local Janesville poet Dianna Henning from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, May 9.

It’s the perfect time with Mothers’ Day just around the corner. This is an opportunity to engage with a living author. Henning will sign books, discuss the job of being a writer and what it takes to keep going.

Henning is an award-winning writer, MFA in Writing VT College, with many national and international publications to her credit, and she has impressive endorsements from established writers and poet laureates. She is a several times nominee for a Pushcart Prize as well as other awards.

Here is a touching review of Henning’s “Rucksacks for the Leaf Cat” by Richard Jackson, author of “The Heart as Framed: New and Select Poems.”

“To enter Dianna Henning’s poems is to enter a natural world that is both realistically and metaphorically described, and which also leaves you “standing on the rim of the infinite.” To stand there is to experience the world from the inside out, for as she writes ‘I was once touched / by such a stone and because / of that I turned human. // But first, I was stone.’ Henning’s is an elemental language in the tradition of Rilke, Gluck and Ada Limon, a language that embraces us as we embrace it. The stakes here are lost loves, death, family and various yearnings, and it is her generous vision where ‘thoughts become dancing birds, / and the writer at the desk, /a wide-open sky’ that gives us an essential and gorgeous poetry that renews us.”