Witness Magazine

Lia Greenwell

Lia Greenwell
The recipient of scholarships from the Rona Jaffe Foundation and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Lia Greenwell has recently contributed poems to Painted Bride Quarterly, Flyway, and Poecology. Originally from the Midwest, she currently lives in North Carolina where she serves as the Joan Beebe Teaching Fellow at Warren Wilson College.

Montauk, NY

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Poetry•Vol. XXVIII No. 2 (Summer 2015)

I went to see how much light               I could take. It was much. The bluffs threatened               to crumble under me but stood. This was the end                of the country. I walked into the sea, through boulders               hidden in wait…. [Read More]