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That Was The Week That Was: Week Twenty-Six
In which Emma does some heavy thinking and then shows some pictures. Continue reading »
2012 / A manifesto of sorts / accidental confessions / aesthetic theory / Amazing discoveries and wondrous visions / Art and life and love and The Big Stuff / DUENDE / Emily Dickinson = The Ultimate / Emma is very lucky / Emma's theories on what makes for Very Good Poetry / extended metaphors / failed or otherwise / False Dichotomies / Fear and how to face it / Home / hopes and dreams / How Emily Dickinson changed (saved?) my life / influences / inspiration / Language systems / learning / love poems / mullings and ramblings / music / no words / odd comparisons and awkward metaphors / Perspiration? Inspiration? / poems / poetry / Poetry as therapy / random musings / readings / Shifting metaphors / Thanks and thanks again / The evolution of Emma / The grind / thought for the day / wonders and apparitions / writing life
Before It Breaks
In which Emma talks about poetry and music and being in awe of it all. Continue reading »
2012 / 365 / A festival of photos / Academia / Academic inquiries / Alice B. Toklas (feline version) / All-around amazing people / Amazing discoveries and wondrous visions / appearances / Art and life and love and The Big Stuff / Artist's Renditions / awesome / AWP / AWP 2012 / AWP Chicago / bad behavior in public places / books / contemporary poetry / Cue the Golden Girls theme song / disagreeable/agreeable / disappearances / DUENDE / education / edumacation / Emma is very lucky / Emma's attempts at normal life / Emma's attempts at real life (failed or otherwise) / EPIC FAIL / Epic Fail? EPIC WIN! / EPIC WIN / evaluations / Fear and how to face it / Fish have bad intentions. / flickr / Free to Be You and Me / Friendship Is Magic / Georgetown College / graduate school / gratuitous photos of whatnot / hopes and dreams / Hotel / inspiration / instagram / It is ON 2012 / Jellyfish / learning / My meowing roommates / my students / no words / Notes to Gentle Reader / Perspiration? Inspiration? / Photo for the day / Photography / plot / poems / poetry / poetry superheroes / poets / reading / readings / Retrospectitating / Retrospective / shameless cat photos / Simon and Garfunkel / So long / Squee! / teaching / teaching writing / Thanks and thanks again / That Was The Week That Was / The evolution of Emma / The only living boy in New York / The Thoughts of a Poetry Fan Girl / The Year of Projects / Thoughts of a Nonfiction Fan Girl / What Emma is up to / what I don't write about / where are you going where have you been / Won't you please come to Chicago / writers conferences / writing community / writing life / writing teachers / You gotta have friends / [expletive deleted]
That Was The Week That Was: Week Eight (And A Bit More)
In which Emma provides little commentary on her AWP experience and a whole lotta pictures which are kinda belated. Continue reading »
9/11 / Fear and how to face it / graduate school / mullings and ramblings / no words / plans / the heft of cathedral tunes / thought for the day / what I don't write about / where are you going where have you been / writing and not writing / writing life
White Roses
Telling the story that is not mine to tell. Continue reading »
2011 / A teacher's education / aesthetic theory / All-around amazing people / Art and life and love and The Big Stuff / Dad / Emma is very lucky / family / Fear and how to face it / Georgia / inspiration / learning / learning patience slowly / Movin' on / mullings and ramblings / no words / plot / random musings / re-purposing / summations / where are you going where have you been / wonders and apparitions / writing life
The Poetics of Space
I’ve always been fascinated by empty rooms, if only because they seem to be pure potential: anything could have happened there. Anything could happen there. As I child, I did what all children do. I filled empty spaces with stories. There was a family of fairies in the unused storage closet. In the space outside … Continue reading »
A brief break from the poetry / A manifesto of sorts / A teacher's education / Art and life and love and The Big Stuff / awesome kids we should all keep an eye out for / DUENDE / Emma is very lucky / Emma's theories on what makes for Very Good Poetry / False Dichotomies / hopes and dreams / ill omens / Inquiries into academics / inspiration / mullings and ramblings / My nerves are bad tonight. Yes bad. / no words / NOT COOL. / outreach / Pass it on! / pedagogy / Power to the People / random musings / ranting and raving / re-purposing / readings / thought for the day / Uncategorized
“America, I Do Not Call Your Name Without Hope”
Emma rants, and offers a Neruda poem. Continue reading »
All-around amazing people / influences / no words / poem for the day / Poetry Rock Stars / poetry superheroes / quotes / random musings / thought for the day
“the light that came to lucille clifton”
In which Emma offers a poem by the amazing Lucille Clifton. Continue reading »
2009 Is the Year of LOL / A festival of photos / Alice B. Toklas (feline version) / Alice B. Toklas (human version) / Amazing discoveries and wondrous visions / Another winter in a summer town / awesome kids we should all keep an eye out for / bad behavior in public places / childhood ailments and other daily disasters / cool/not cool / disagreeable/agreeable / disappearances / Emma hits a wall / Emma's dsyfunctional relationship with Diet Coke / Epic Cat Battles / eyebrows / Georgetown College / gratuitous photos of whatnot / Home / inspiration / IRL Drama Llama / Kentucky is the tundra / learning patience slowly / no words / shameless cat photos / stalled / Stick figures ARE art / teaching / The latest medical anomaly / The Secret Life of Objects / This entry brought to you by Tender Buttons / where are you going where have you been / wonders and apparitions / [expletive deleted]
“A List of Praises”
In which Emma moans about kidney stones and shows you some pictures to make up for it. Continue reading »
A festival of photos / A teacher's education / Amazing discoveries and wondrous visions / awesome kids we should all keep an eye out for / Brief Updating / edumacation / Emma is very lucky / EPIC WIN / eyebrows / Fine art versus pop art / no words / SCHMOE! / shameless cat photos / Squee! / Stationary Objects and Collisions Therewith / Stick Figure Pedagogy / Stick figures ARE art / teaching / The Center for Gifted Studies / The Secret Life of Objects / VAMPY / Verbally and Methematically Precocious Youth / where are you going where have you been / wonders and apparitions
“That Was The Week That Was” (In Other Words: Photo Post!)
In which Emma offers a number of photographs from her week in Bowling Green. Continue reading »
