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Daily Archives: September 9, 2012

A manifesto of sorts / A teacher's education / aesthetic theory / appearances / Art and life and love and The Big Stuff / Bizarre associations and other odd tendencies / disappearances / drafts / Emma's Awkward Adolescence / Emma's Adventures in Over-Analyzing / Emma's attempts at normal life / Emma's theories on what makes for Very Good Poetry / family / fashion / Fear and how to face it / Free to Be You and Me / hopes and dreams / housekeeping / How Emily Dickinson changed (saved?) my life / Huffy Henry hid the day away / I really did go to a school called Our Lady of Sorrows / inspiration / learning patience slowly / mullings and ramblings / muumuus / nonappearances / On being a poet / overthinking / perfection is boring. period. / Perspiration? Inspiration? / Photography / pictorial representations / poetry / poets / Probably quite a bit TMI / rambling about verb tenses / random musings / ranting and raving / shallow thoughts on shoes and the like / The grind / the poem factory / The siege in the room / thought for the day / training / visual representations / writing life / writing room / You better work

I’m a Poet, But I Sure Don’t Know It.

Posted on September 9, 2012 by emmabolden • Leave a comment

In which Emma explains why she isn’t a poet and why she has a particular attachment to hideous house-dresses. Continue reading »

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Emma Bolden

Poet, prose writer, professor, ponderer, and professional cat-wrangler.

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Tweets For My Sweets

  • I had a dream in which I changed my name to Max Zamboni. AND IT WAS AWESOME. 19 hours ago
  • Gertrude Stein, true to her namesake, oversees my editing. instagram.com/p/ZgIacephYM/ 22 hours ago
  • "If your baby tries to drop-kick you, threaten him with your fist." instagram.com/p/ZeDwnuJhfC/ 1 day ago
  • This is one of those days where my brain is like HEY ALL THE WORK WE HAVE TO DO and the rest of me turns into Grumpy Cat and says NO. 1 day ago
  • It's pretty clear at this point that I am being stalked by Adobe updates and Linked In. 2 days ago

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