Rebecca Wolff
Born in 1967 and raised in New York City, Rebecca Wolff earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop in 1993 and, in 1997, founded the literary journal Fence.
Wolff is the author of Slight Return (Wave Books); The King (W. W. Norton, 2009); Figment (W. W. Norton, 2004); and Manderley (University of Illinois Press, 2001), which was selected by Robert Pinsky for the 2000 National Poetry Series.
Wolff currently teaches courses in poetry and creative writing for the New York State Writers Institute at the University of Albany. She lives in Athens, New York.
CPC Readings
Tuesday, October 30, 2001
The Art Institute of Chicago
Poetry by Rebecca Wolff
Half a day is dead already–
a lady with a baby in the shady graveyard
promenade not quite the idea
but the first idea to be impressed
so firmly– Grace to be born
He died before we could honor
him correctly. Candied
impulse through the brain.
Your will subverted