Mark Liebenow - Grief (formerly Widowers Grief): Redux Literary Journal

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.

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Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Publications News

I’m thrilled that in the last month a number of my poems and creative nonfiction writings have been published by literary journals. In case you missed any, these are the links.

Two long essays

“Artifacts” with Hippocampus Magazinehttp://bit.ly/2z6kDWc,

“Wooden Gates” with R.KV.R.Y. Journalhttp://rkvryquarterly.com/wooden-gates-by-mark-liebenow/

A micro essay

“Waiting For Owls”with River Teethhttp://www.riverteethjournal.com/blog/2018/07/16/waiting-for-owls-rerun

Two of my best poems

with Redux Journalhttp://www.reduxlitjournal.com/2018/07/271-two-poems-by-mark-liebenow.html

They were originally published by Fifth Wednesday Journal and Spoon River Poetry Review.

Sunday, July 2, 2017

Hiking With Kierkegaard

To understand the wilderness (and grief), we have to hike into it.

My essay at Redux Journal.

http://www.reduxlitjournal.com/2017/06/235-hiking-with-kierkegaard-by-mark.html

Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Hiking Through Grief with Philosophers

One of my grief essays was published in the Chautauqua literary journal. It’s called “Hiking with Kierkegaard,” and it’s about going to Yosemite to hike with grief and philosophers. Its subtitle is: “The Philosophical Struggle Between the Idea and the Experience of Nature: A Debate Informed by Goethe, Wittgenstein, Kierkegaard, the Velveteen Rabbit, and Shaped by an Actual Hike to the Top of El Capitan.”

One of the points in the essay is that we do not see everything about reality on our own. We need the help of others to see the rest, and to become aware of what is going on in the background and under the surface, both in nature and in grief.