Art by Jonathan Ehrenberg
Two Poems by Erica Ehrenberg
April 1, 2026
Dispatches
All posts tagged: Erica Ehrenberg
Friday Reads: June 2023
June 9, 2023
Reviews
Curated by SOFIA BELIMOVA
Welcome to the June round of Friday Reads! Are you hoping to read more this summer? Do you have a favorite shady spot in a backyard or park, but no book to share it with? Read on for exciting recommendations from our contributors. Find stories that reach beyond the scope of normative human experience, essays about writing and writers, and hybrid memoir on music and survival.
Postpartum
May 8, 2023
Issue 25, Issue 25 Poetry, Poetry
To have a blind spot
there must be
a surrounding clarity.
Being a mother
brings me the world
I have already
blindly traveled.
On Tenterhooks
August 17, 2022
Dispatches
The Aladdin Hotel, Woodbourne, NY
April 15, 2019
Issue 17, Issue 17 Poetry, Poetry
The swimming pool is empty—another one is full but cracked and there are leaves floating in it. I’m sitting with my grandfather. He’s blind and our point of contact is a limit bolts of recognition pass through.
He saw me once in a pool under the water so he sees this in his mind often when he’s near me. He tells me about swimming across a river. Where is this river? I see branches with blue-black berries on them sinking into the water, each berry so loaded with his memory and my imagination they burst with their own reality.
July 2018 Poetry Feature
July 27, 2018
Poetry
New poems by our contributors, ERICA EHRENBERG and SEBASTIAN MATTHEWS
The Toy Lamb
It was the limpness that I loved,
the way it dangled
even when it was sitting,
when it was as low down
as it possibly could be against the line
of gravity,
