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A Healthy Dose of Shameless Self-Promotion

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In which Emma announces the debut of her chapbook, The Sad Epistles, and offers the first poem she’s written since September, which shall soon vanish. Continue reading »

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I Get By With A Little Help From My Friends

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In which Emma offers many well-deserved plugs for fabulous people, places, poets, and projects. Continue reading »

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Don’t Tell Me You Weren’t Expecting This Post. :)

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In which Emma discusses the realization that she is, beyond any shadow of a doubt, cursed. Continue reading »

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“Won’t you please come to Chicago / Show your face!”

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I know that many of you will be making the trek up to lovely and temperate Chicago, IL, for the AWP Conference, and I want to see you there!  I will be spending most of my time in the book fair, at the Georgetown Review‘s table.  We’ll have many an issue for sale — and … Continue reading »