His books include Janet Fish: A Monograph (Burton & Skira, Geneva, 1987), The Mirrored Clubs of Hell: Poems by Gerrit Henry (Little, Brown and Company, 1991), Poems & Ballades (Dolphin, Baltimore, 1998) and Ian Hornak: Reverence and Reverie (Katharina Rich Perlow, Inc. 1999).
The Time of the Night, a posthumous collection of his poems edited by Marc Cohen, was published in 2011 by The Groundwater Press.
[1] His last project, Climbing the Stairs, a documentary about his life and poetry (with John Ashbery), directed by Neil Grayson (artist) and produced by Dactyl Foundation for the Arts & Humanities, was released in 2004.
Henry received awards from The Cornell Woolrich Fellowship, Columbia University, The National Endowment for the Arts, the Ann and Erlo Von Waveren Foundation, and NYFA artists' fund.
"Gerrit Henry, An Art Critic Who Also Wrote Poetry, Dies at 52," Ken Johnson, New York Times, May 12, 2003.