Author Archives | Linda Whittenberg
Linda Whittenberg grew up in Illinois farm country and lived for periods of time both east and west before finding her heart's home in the mountains and deserts of New Mexico. Her story involves experiences that might led to a cautious life, but, to the contrary, she has followed an adventurous path with unpredictable turns and unexpected rewards. The various roles she has played as wife, mother, grandmother, teacher, and Unitarian Universalist minister have all become fertile sources for poems.
Since retiring from full-time work in ministry, she has lived just outside Santa Fe, NM, in a rural setting with her husband, Bob Wilber; Sancho, her husband's mule; goat, Obie; and two cattle dots, Tillie and Drover. The entire family enjoys long mountain hikes in the Pecos Wilderness. She and her husband met dancing over 25 years ago and still dance weekly with a large circle of country-western dancing friends.
Linda is an active participant in the community of Santa Fe writers. Her work has been published widely in poetry journals and anthologies: Sin Fronteras; Writers without Borders; Passager; Manzanita Quarterly; Spoon River Poetry Review; New Mexico Poetry Review; Pudding Magazine; Lunarosity, and The Familiar, an anthology pubilshed by The People's Press.
Weekly Poem: Sing no hymns save frog-croaks
Frogs, a sort of mascot for my brother
whose friends called him Hoppy.
One of his tree ornaments,
a frog wearing a Santa hat,
hangs on our tree every Christmas,
near the back.
Flat fields of his youth provided
nowhere to hide, the sky was too close;
so he left muddy rivers, farm ponds
and sloughs to become a frog out of water,
exotic desert amphibian, trying to drown
Vietnam nightly
at the Green Onion Bar...
12. August 2013
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