Scholarly and Creative Works
2026
- Hensley, K. L. (n.d.). Instead of Heart, We Could Say. Press Pause. Press Pause Press.
- Hensley, K. L. (n.d.). Forgive My 9AM Salivations, But. Press Pause. Press Pause Press.
2025
- Hensley, K. L. (2025, June). The Gentle Art of Leeching. Gulf Coast. Retrieved from https://gulfcoastmag.org/stories/372-summerfall-2025,4803
- Hensley, K. L. (2025, January). The Works of Flesh Are Manifest. BOOTH. Retrieved from https://booth.butler.edu/2025/01/03/the-works-of-flesh-are-manifest/
- Hensley, K. L. (n.d.). Salome in Tritina. Sonora Reivew.
- Hensley, K. L. (n.d.). Tarswing. Anthropocene Poetry Journal.
- Hensley, K. L. (n.d.). Nightcrawlers. Hood of Bone Review.
- Hensley, K. L. (n.d.). Birdseye. Hood of Bone Review.
- Hensley, K. L. (n.d.). Her/men/u/tics. A Little Sugar in the Tank Anthology. Miracle Monacle.
- Hensley, K. L. (n.d.). Skeleton B78. Foreshadow.
- Hensley, K. L. (n.d.). The Apple of My Armpit. Luna Luna Magazine.
- Hensley, K. L. (n.d.). Welcome to the Reliquary. Luna Luna Magazine.
- Hensley, K. L. (2025, August). Sphagia. Sontag Mag. Retrieved from https://sontagmag.com/sontag-mag-volume-five-summer-fall-2025/kale-hensley-sphagia
- Hensley, K. L. (2025, July). At the Mouth of a Peculiar Holler. Charleston Anvil. Charleston, WV. Retrieved from https://the-charleston-anvil.square.site/
- Hensley, K. L. (2025, July). Bad Faith. The Table Review. Retrieved from https://thetablereview.org/bad-faith-kale-hensley
- Hensley, K. L. (2025, June). The Gentle Art of Forsooking. December. Retrieved from https://decembermag.org/current-issue-36-1/
- Hensley, K. L. (2025, June). Instead of Love, We Could Say. Let’s Stab Caesar. Retrieved from https://www.letsstabcaesar.com/volume-5
- Hensley, K. L. (2025, June). We’re Finally Drunk Enough to Watch Ice-Skating Videos. Let’s Stab Caesar. Retrieved from https://www.letsstabcaesar.com/volume-5
- Hensley, K. L. (2025, June). Call ’Em Like You See ’Em. Epiphany: A Literary Journal. Retrieved from https://epiphanyzine.com/buy/epiphany-springsummer-2025-desire-dread
- Hensley, K. L. (2025, June). Mystic Origin Story. Epiphany: A Literary Journal. Retrieved from https://epiphanyzine.com/buy/epiphany-springsummer-2025-desire-dread
- Hensley, K. L. (2025, June). The Mysterious Doodles in a 1,300 Year Old Book. New Delta Review. Retrieved from https://ndrmag.org/the-mysterious-doodles-hidden-in-a-1-300-year-old-book
- Hensley, K. L. (2025, June). How the Seminar Became a Circle Jerk Became a Mosh Pit. The Martello Journal. Dublin, Ireland. Retrieved from https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60b545bedf3b1702ea454bba/t/684017e82185b9734eeda58c/1749030891239/RAGIN%E2%80%99_compressed.pdf
- Hensley, K. L. (2025). Tiny Talks with Kale Hensley. Tiny Spoon. Retrieved from https://tinyspoon.org/2025/06/10/tiny-talks-with-kale-hensley/
- Hensley, K. L. (2025, May). So Shiny, So Deep, So Unlike Me. Reed Magazine. Retrieved from https://www.reedmag.org/product-page/reed-magazine-issue-158
- Hensley, K. L. (2025, May). Braiding the Girl. Tiny Spoon. Retrieved from https://tinyspoon.org/product/issue-13-superstition-divination/
- Hensley, K. L. (2025, May). Oyez. Peach Fuzz. Austin, TX. Retrieved from https://www.peachfuzzmag.com/product-page/peach-fuzz-issue-32
- Hensley, K. L. (2025, May). Postmodern Transportation. The Core Review. Fork Apple Press. Retrieved from https://forkapplepress.com/the-core-review/issue-2/postmodern-transportation
- Hensley, K. L. (2025, May). My Lips Are Up Here. The Core Review. Fork Apple Press. Retrieved from https://forkapplepress.com/the-core-review/issue-2/my-lips-are-up-here
- Hensley, K. L. (2025, April). A Light Touch. Midway Journal. Retrieved from https://midwayjournal.com/a-light-touch/
- Hensley, K. L. (2025, March). Creeker. Cordella Magazine. Cordella Press. Retrieved from https://www.cordella.org/#/creeker
- Hensley, K. L. (2025, January). The Gentle Art of Beseeching. Amethyst Review. Amethyst Press. Retrieved from https://amethystmagazine.org/2025/01/05/the-gentle-art-of-beseeching-a-poem-by-kate-hensley/
- Hensley, K. L. (2025, January). I Try to Name All the Colors in West Virginia But I Run Out of Breath. Salvation South. Retrieved from https://www.salvationsouth.com/west-virginia-poems-kale-hensley-surrender-colors/
- Hensley, K. L. (2025, January). The Origins of Surrender Lie in the Cartwheel. Salvation South. Retrieved from https://www.salvationsouth.com/west-virginia-poems-kale-hensley-surrender-colors/
- Hensley, K. L. (2025, January). Variations in Stain. Rust & Moth. Retrieved from https://rustandmoth.com/work/variations-in-stain/
2024
- Hensley, K. L. (2024, December). Creation Myth: Phyllis Rides Aristotle. Evergreen Review. Retrieved from https://evergreenreview.com/read/the-rest-cure-for-common-whores/
- Hensley, K. L. (2024, July). A Bed Built on Wheels. So to Speak: A Journal of Feminist Art and Language. Retrieved from https://www.sotospeakjournal.org/kale-hensley-a-bed-built
- Hensley, K. L. (2024, April). When the Last Trumpet Sounds, I Will Be in the Mummy Room at the Museum. Gulf Stream. Retrieved from https://gulfstreamlitmag.com/2024/04/16/when-the-last-trumpet-sounds-i-will-be-in-the-mummy-room-at-the-museum/
- Hensley, K. L. (2024, April). Christina Beyond the Curtain. Image. Retrieved from https://imagejournal.org/article/christina-beyond-the-curtain/
- Hensley, K. L. (2024, December). Heartfast. Amethyst Review. Amethyst Press. Retrieved from https://amethystmagazine.org/2024/12/02/heartfast-a-poem-by-kate-hensley/
- Hensley, K. L. (2024, December). I’m Steering the Whelm of This Ship. Many Nice Donkeys. Retrieved from https://www.manynicedonkeys.com/_files/ugd/af8f94_cea598c685204908ac3dace4dfc49ef1.pdf
- Hensley, K. L. (2024, December). Sistering: the Reprise. Evergreen Review. https://evergreenreview.com/read/the-rest-cure-for-common-whores/.
- Hensley, K. L. (2024, December). The Rest Cure for Common Whores. Evergreen Review. Retrieved from https://evergreenreview.com/read/the-rest-cure-for-common-whores/
- Hensley, K. L. (2024, December). All My Prayers in Blood and Cream. Jelly Squid. Retrieved from https://www.jellysquid.site/issue-2/all-my-prayers-in-blood-and-cream-kale-hensley
- Hensley, K. L. (2024, November). Halloween 2017. Miniskirt Magazine. Retrieved from https://miniskirtmagazine.com/kale-hensley/
- Hensley, K. L. (2024, November). Chigger Chug. The Hopper. Retrieved from http://www.hoppermag.org/chigger-chug
- Hensley, K. L. (2024, October). I Reckon with Feet. Potomac Review. Montgomery College. Retrieved from https://mcblogs.montgomerycollege.edu/potomacreview/2024/10/19/kale-hensley/
- Hensley, K. L. (2024, October). The Sign of the Crocus. Lucky Jefferson. Retrieved from https://luckyjefferson.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Ember-No.-12-ONLINE.pdf
- Hensley, K. L. (2024, September). Itsafter: A Ballad of Mary Magdalene. The Clayjar Review. Retrieved from https://clayjar.review/issues/toil/itsafter
- Hensley, K. L. (2024). Skate Trick. In THE THIRD BULLSHIT LIT ANTHOLOGY. Bullshit Lit Mag & Press.
- Hensley, K. L. (2024, September). I Asked a Saint to Ruin Your Breakfast. The Crawfish. Retrieved from https://www.the-crawfish.com/features/i-asked-a-saint-to-ruin-your-breakfastkale-hensley
- Hensley, K. L. (2024, September). Afterworld. The Clayjar Review. Retrieved from https://clayjar.review/issues/toil/afterworld
- Hensley, K. L. (2024, August). Even in the Small Worlds, You Came First. The Squawk Back. Retrieved from https://www.thesquawkback.com/2024/08/kale-hensley.html
- Hensley, K. L. (2024, August). My Kink Was Heat and Inquiry. The Los Angeles Review of Los Angeles. Retrieved from https://www.robindunn.com/LAROLA19.pdf
- Hensley, K. L. (2024, August). I Begged God For Your Anger and Instead He Gave Me... The Squawk Back. Retrieved from https://www.thesquawkback.com/2024/08/kale-hensley.html
- Hensley, K. L. (2024, August). The United States of Virgin Martyrs. The Squawk Back. Retrieved from https://www.thesquawkback.com/2024/08/kale-hensley.html
- Hensley, K. L. (2024, July). Anniversaries. Talk Vomit. Retrieved from https://talkvomit.com/2024/08/16/anniversaries/
- Hensley, K. L. (2024). Mrs. Not Me (4th ed.). midsummer magazine. Retrieved from https://www.midsummermagazine.com/read/issue-4/mrs-not-me
- Hensley, K. L. (2024). Private[s] Practice: Reading Priestess in Diane di Prima’s Memoirs. Beatdom.
- Hensley, K. L. (2024, March). Troffea Confessional. Lucent Dreaming. Retrieved from https://lucentdreaming.com/troffea-confessional-by-kale-hensley-lucent-dreaming-issue-13/
2023
- Hensley, K. L. (2023, November). Nymphonics. Screen Door Review. Retrieved from https://www.screendoorreview.com/nymphonics/
- Hensley, K. L. (2023). Sappho to Erinna in Technicolor (15th ed.). Retrieved from https://www.screendoorreview.com/sappho-to-erinna-in-technicolor/
- Hensley, K. L. (2023). Julian then Norwich. In All Shall Be Well: Poems for Julian of Norwich. Amethyst Press.
- Hensley, K. L. (2023, February). Morning Glory. Sweet Lit. Retrieved from https://sweetlit.org/kale-hensley-volume-15/
2022
- Hensley, K. L. (2022, December). Self-Portrait as St. Lucy’s Shopping List. Red Ogre Review. Retrieved from https://ogre.red/issues/2022-12/2022-12-hensley-kale/
2019
- Hensley, K. L. (2019, May). All American-Transubstantiation. Levee Magazine.
- Hensley, K. L. (2019, April). The Spider. Collision. University of Pittsburgh.