Portrait of Professor Kale Hensley

Professor Kale Hensley

  • Asst Professor of Instruction at English, College of Liberal Arts

Scholarly and Creative Works

2027

  • Hensley, K. L. (n.d.). Spleen et Ideal in Contrapuntal. After...: Poems Inspired by Other Art.

2026

  • Hensley, K. L. (n.d.). Skeleton B78. Foreshadow.
  • Hensley, K. L. (n.d.). All-American Transubstantiation 2.0. Cutleaf.
  • Hensley, K. L. (n.d.). The Second Hottest Day of Summer. Cutleaf.
  • Hensley, K. L. (n.d.). Farewell, San Angelo! Cutleaf.
  • Hensley, K. L. (n.d.). No More, This Untold Life of Birds. Cutleaf.
  • Hensley, K. L. (n.d.). The Third Hottest Day of Summer. The Red Branch Review.
  • Hensley, K. L. (n.d.). Ode to Venus (Only of Willendorf). Aftertouch.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2026, June). Slice. Santa Clara Review.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2026, May). Self-Portrait as Wet Horse. Sabr Tooth Tiger Magazine.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2026, May). The DSi Stands for Doing Things I-Shouldn’t Be. Strip Mall Magazine.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2026, April). Instead of Heart, We Could Say. Press Pause. Press Pause Press.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2026, April). Forgive My 9AM Salivations, But. Press Pause. Press Pause Press.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2026, March). 3D Puberty Space Cadet. Hellmouth Magazine.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2026, March). Redneck. Hellmouth Magazine.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2026, March). So I Bounced Back a Little Different. Hellmouth Magazine.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2026, February). Salome in Tritina. Sonora Reivew.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2026, February). Her/men/u/tics. A Little Sugar in the Tank Anthology. Miracle Monacle.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2026, February). Rapture with Foul Mouth. Phoebe.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2026, February). Girl Pissing Sunsets. The Harvard Advocate.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2026, February). Girl! I Feel Like a Man! Electric Pink.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2026, February). Piggy, Is That You? It’s Me, Canary! Electric Pink.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2026). Q&A with Micro-Anthology Contributors. Miracle Monocle.

2025

  • Hensley, K. L. (2025, June). The Gentle Art of Leeching. Gulf Coast.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2025, January). The Works of Flesh Are Manifest. Booth.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2025, December). Cock Worship is So Twelfth Century. Filling Station.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2025, December). If God Comes Back, I’m a Goner! Copytext Magazine.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2025, December). Madonna of Rot. Nixes Mate Review.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2025, December). Redneck. Pictura Journal.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2025, December). The Easter of Wuther. Pictura Journal.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2025, December). Un/a/muse. The Turning Leaf Journal.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2025, December). Selkie. Prose Poems.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2025, December). Decreation. Prose Poems.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2025, December). Shanty for Pretty-Fingered Boys. Pink Disco Magazine.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2025, December). Why Are We at the Drive-In; Why Are You Shirtless? Pink Disco Magazine.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2025). Kale Hensley. Pictura Journal.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2025, November). Tarswing. Anthropocene Poetry Journal. London, United Kingdom.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2025, November). Nightcrawlers. Hood of Bone Review.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2025, November). Birdseye. Hood of Bone Review.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2025, November). The Apple of My Armpit. Luna Luna Magazine.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2025, November). Welcome to the Reliquary. Luna Luna Magazine.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2025, November). The Etymology of Harmony. The Account: A Journal of Poetry, Prose, and Thought.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2025, November). Ugh, I’m Soooo Over Hope. The Account: A Journal of Poetry, Prose and Thought.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2025, August). Sphagia. Sontag Mag.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2025, July). At the Mouth of a Peculiar Holler. Charleston Anvil. Charleston, WV.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2025, July). Bad Faith. The Table Review.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2025, June). The Gentle Art of Forsooking. December.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2025, June). Instead of Love, We Could Say. Let’s Stab Caesar.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2025, June). We’re Finally Drunk Enough to Watch Ice-Skating Videos. Let’s Stab Caesar.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2025, June). Call ’Em Like You See ’Em. Epiphany: A Literary Journal.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2025, June). Mystic Origin Story. Epiphany: A Literary Journal.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2025, June). The Mysterious Doodles in a 1,300 Year Old Book. New Delta Review.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2025, June). How the Seminar Became a Circle Jerk Became a Mosh Pit. The Martello Journal. Dublin, Ireland.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2025). Tiny Talks with Kale Hensley. Tiny Spoon.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2025, May). So Shiny, So Deep, So Unlike Me. Reed Magazine.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2025, May). Braiding the Girl. Tiny Spoon.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2025, May). Oyez. Peach Fuzz. Austin, TX.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2025, May). Postmodern Transportation. The Core Review. Fork Apple Press.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2025, May). My Lips Are Up Here. The Core Review. Fork Apple Press.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2025, April). A Light Touch. Midway Journal.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2025, March). Creeker. Cordella Magazine. Cordella Press.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2025, January). The Gentle Art of Beseeching. Amethyst Review. Amethyst Press.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2025, January). I Try to Name All the Colors in West Virginia But I Run Out of Breath. Salvation South.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2025, January). The Origins of Surrender Lie in the Cartwheel. Salvation South.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2025, January). Variations in Stain. Rust & Moth.

2024

  • Hensley, K. L. (2024, December). Creation Myth: Phyllis Rides Aristotle. Evergreen Review.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2024, July). A Bed Built on Wheels. So to Speak: A Journal of Feminist Art and Language.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2024, April). Christina Beyond the Curtain. Image.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2024, December). Heartfast. Amethyst Review. Amethyst Press.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2024, December). I’m Steering the Whelm of This Ship. Many Nice Donkeys.
  • 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.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2024, December). All My Prayers in Blood and Cream. Jelly Squid.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2024, November). Halloween 2017. Miniskirt Magazine.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2024, November). Chigger Chug. The Hopper.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2024, October). I Reckon with Feet. Potomac Review.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2024, October). The Sign of the Crocus. Lucky Jefferson.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2024, September). Itsafter: A Ballad of Mary Magdalene. The Clayjar Review.
  • 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.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2024, September). Afterworld. The Clayjar Review.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2024, August). Even in the Small Worlds, You Came First. The Squawk Back.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2024, August). My Kink Was Heat and Inquiry. The Los Angeles Review of Los Angeles.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2024, August). I Begged God For Your Anger and Instead He Gave Me... The Squawk Back.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2024, August). The United States of Virgin Martyrs. The Squawk Back.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2024, July). Anniversaries. Talk Vomit.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2024). Mrs. Not Me (4th ed.). midsummer magazine.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2024, April). When the Last Trumpet Sounds, I Will Be in the Mummy Room at the Museum. Gulf Stream.
  • 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.

2023

  • Hensley, K. L. (2023, November). Nymphonics. Screen Door Review.
  • Hensley, K. L. (2023). Sappho to Erinna in Technicolor (15th ed.).
  • 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.

2022

  • Hensley, K. L. (2022, December). Self-Portrait as St. Lucy’s Grocery List. Red Ogre Review.

2019

  • Hensley, K. L. (2019, April). The Spider. Collision. Pittsburgh, PA, United States: University of Pittsburgh.