Matthew E. Henry

MATTHEW E. HENRY (MEH) is the author of said the Frog to the scorpion (Harbor Editions, 2024) and five other poetry collections, including The Third Renunciation (New York Quarterly Books, 2023) and the Colored page (Sundress Publications, 2022). His work appears in Massachusetts Review, Ninth Letter, Ploughshares, Shenandoah, and The Worcester Review among others. The 2023 winner of the Solstice Literary Magazine Stephen Dunn Prize, MEH is editor-in-chief of The Weight Journal and an associate poetry editor at Pidgeonholes and Rise Up Review. He is an educator who received an MFA in poetry yet continued to spend money he didn’t have completing an MA in theology and a PhD in education. Find him at www.MEHPoeting.com writing about education, race, religion, and burning oppressive systems to the ground.