Rebecca Lindenberg, Guest Blogger March 27-April 2

This week we welcome Rebecca Lindenberg as our guest blogger.  Rebecca's first poetry collection, GLOSS, is forthcoming in 2012 from the new McSweeney's poetry series.  She is the recipient of a 2011 National Endowment of the Arts Literature Fellowship and a 2009-2010 Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship.  Her poems appear or will soon appear in POETRY, The Believer, 32 Poems, DIAGRAM, Conjunctions, No Tell Motel, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Gulf Coast, BlazeVox, Barrow Street, Western Humanities Review and elsewhere.  She holds a Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Utah, where she also lectures.  She grew up in Palo Alto, California, where she was the laziest member of the Greenmeadow Swim Team, and she makes a mean lasagna.

Welcome, Rebecca.

Comments

[The Best American Poetry]

Thanks for a fabulous week of blogs. DL

[Coganoq]

Dear, Ms. Lindenberg
I am a 11th grade student, and i have chosen one of your poem for an event called poetry out loud. It is where students memorize poem and recite them the for the class. this year i selected one of your poems titled "The Carnival".I was wondering if you could give me some insight on why you wrote this poem. But before poetry out loud we are looking for poetry terms in each poem, and with those terms we have to right a paper on them "to make the poem stronger" which i have no clue what that means. A few terms i found while reading your poem was Inversion,Imagery, Personification, Simile, and Repetition. I am sure that there are plenty more, but these were the ones that stuck out to me. The reason why i think you used inversion was to be mysterious and hidden. you try to mixed up the word order so the reader can not fully understand who you are, like when you talk about the mask, you could be hiding something from your childhood. It could be a horrific incident or feelings for someone long gone and u talk about the masks that u hide behind. Has anything horrific happend in your childhood? and could you tell me a little about your life? Thankyou for taking the time to read this because i know you are probably very busy.