Who I am.

I write about the landscape of grief, nature, and the wisdom of fools. The author of four books, my essays, poems, and reviews have been published in over 50 journals, including in the Huffington Post and Colorado Review. I’ve won the River Teeth Nonfiction Book Award, the Chautauqua and Literal Latte’s essay prizes, and my work has been nominated for four Pushcart Prizes and named a notable by Best American Essays. My account of hiking in Yosemite to deal with my wife’s death, Mountains of Light, was published by the University of Nebraska Press. http://www.markliebenow.com.

Monday, March 3, 2014

On New Year's Day









Journal entry 29                  

The hush of turning a page. This is what the arrival of the new year sounded like on New Year’s Day. The turning of a page and facing the blank one that appeared. And as easy and quietly as that, everything connected to Evelyn became the past. She rehearsed for a play last year, went to the Arizona desert with Barbara last year, and died last year.

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