Rebecca Lindenberg, Author at Witness

Rebecca Lindenberg

Rebecca Lindenberg is the author of Love, an Index (McSweeney’s 2012) and The Logan Notebooks (Center for Literary Publishing 2014). She’s the recipient of an Amy Lowell Poetry Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Grant, and residencies from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and the MacDowell Arts Colony. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Utah.

Aphorism (There may be)

By Rebecca Lindenberg

Poetry•Vol. XXVII No. 2 (Summer 2014)

There may be ruined fences, but there are no ruined stones.

Aphorism (Sometimes the best)

By Rebecca Lindenberg

Poetry•Vol. XXVII No. 2 (Summer 2014)

Sometimes the best way out of the rain is into the river.

September

By Rebecca Lindenberg

Poetry•Vol. XXVII No. 2 (Summer 2014)

A young trucker lives across the cul–de–sac with his pretty girlfriend. She has a limp and lends me her hairdryer. When he’s home, he drinks until he’s numb to his thunderous sound–system, or he shows us all of his guns. He coats his knives in anticoagulant. But one night he brought out a high–powered telescope… [Read More]