Middle-America's most engaging authors since 1998.
Middle-America's most engaging authors since 1998.
Eric Rensberger grew up in Elkhart County, Indiana, and has lived for most of his life in Monroe County. He has been involved in Bloomington’s local poetry community since arriving there in 1979. He is the author of several chapbooks and has been published in anthologies of Bloomington area poets, as well as appearing in local or regional magazines. He has self-published through his website. That site is the primary home for his ongoing chronological series Account of My Days.
Published: 2025
You can see it: a life's dedication not to looking but to seeing. A field in his daily walk is a "green wing of the hill" and "broken rooms [are] stacked with moonlight and shadow.” Here, in the night, the young "fall on one another in a tangle of cries of discovery" and "birds in black coats minister to the newly dead.”
—Alice Friman
Picture a broad oak deep in a small forest surrounded by farmland, a silvery sycamore over decades leaning into the meander of a creek just out of sight of the highway. This is where Eric Rensberger finds his poems: in the misty mystic remnants of wilderness, where wistful longing, quiet revelation, and generous friendship form a foundation as solid as a stack of river rock.
—Tony Brewer, 2024 Indiana Literary Champion