“In the long journey out of the self, there are many detours.” —Theodore Roethke
Eric Rensberger grew up in Elkhart County, Indiana and has lived in the Bloomington area since 1979. In childhood he knew he wanted to be a poet, but it took him a while to figure out what that meant in practice: mainly making mistakes and starting over.
He has been published in journals and anthologies and has participated with enthusiasm in self-published projects. He has a large collection of his work on his website at ericrensbergerpoetry.net. In 2025, he published a volume of selected poems, Notes To Self.
On this edition of the Poets Weave, Eric reads “A Return,” “Clutter,” “3/10/14,” and “A Cursing.”