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Happy New Years and Such, Facebook Addict Style

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In which Emma lazily allows The Facebooks to do her end-of-and-beginning-of-year-summations for her. Continue reading »

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“The Soul unto itself — / is an imperial friend — / Or the most agonizing Spy — / An Enemy — could send –”

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In which Emma blogs about fields, darkness, seas, the unconscious, Jung, Fulton, Dickinson (of course), and what poetry can really teach us. Continue reading »

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Hive Mind

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In which Emma offers a good Nick Flynn poem and a series of bad puns. Continue reading »

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“I’m Miss American Dream Since I Was Seventeen.”

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In which Emma describes The Great Laundry Basket Battle of 2009 and talks a bit about just how amazing and awesome Doris Lessing is. Continue reading »

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“She knows there’s no success like failure / and that failure’s no success at all.”

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My grades are averaged and submitted, my presents are bought (if not stripped of their price tags and wrapped), and I’m allowing myself a few days of sugar highs and on-the-couch-reality-television stupor before getting back in the academic saddle and put the final touches on my syllabi for spring. I can hardly believe that this … Continue reading »