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The Lament, Part Three: Poetry and Academics

In which Emma talks a bit about poetry and academia and PhDs and MFAs and other acronyms and so forth. Continue reading »

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Day 188: July 9th

Day 188: July 9th Originally uploaded by emmabolden Today’s photograph is another metaphor, which comes with a story about Alice B. Toklas. This is a photograph of Alice B. Toklas in my parents’ guest bathtub. Alice B. Toklas is completely, all-absorbingly obsessed with my parents’ guest bathtub. It’s not that she hasn’t seen a bathtub … Continue reading »