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