Other Poets / Where You Can Find Me (Or At Least My Words) / Other Presses We Should All Be Looking At / Other Lit Mags One Should Admire / One Can Find Me Here (Or At Least My Words) / appearances / magazines / hopes and dreams / submissions / poem challenge / the poem factory / writing life / rejection slippage / wonders and apparitions / revision / poem for the day / the genre line (and stepping over it) / love poems / awesome presses / inspiration / Dear Johns from the Po Biz / shameless self-promotion / Squee! / Very Excellent News / Corrections / announcements / Chchchchanges / Movin' on / COLLECT! / The big move / Stationary Objects and Collisions Therewith / publishing (or not publishing / where are you going where have you been / creative nonfiction / living without linebreaks / accidental confessions / You gotta have friends / Emma is very lucky / The Secret Life of Objects / Amazing discoveries and wondrous visions / EPIC WIN / Online literary magazines / Going to eleven / contemporary poetry / The grind / poets / poetry / nonfiction / publishing / Thanks and thanks again / Glitter (pretty version) / poems / awesome / Milestones and suchness / love / relationships / Internet culture / Online culture / crafts / crafting / gratitude / 2013 is the year of Awesome / rejection / Letters to Inanimate Objects / Breaking up is hard to do / creative writing / BOOM. / Poetry Daily

The Story Behind “The Damage”

In which Emma has a dream come true and talks about it for you. AND MAKES HER SUMMARY RHYME. Continue reading »

"The Glass Essay" / A manifesto of sorts / Academia / Academic inquiries / aesthetic theory / Anne Carson / Art and life and love and The Big Stuff / Artist's Renditions / avant-garde / AWP / AWP 2013 / AWP Boston / balance / books / color-coding / contemporary poetry / creative nonfiction / Creative Writing Scholarship / criticism / definitions / education / edumacation / Emily Dickinson / Emily Dickinson = The Ultimate / Emma's Adventures in Over-Analyzing / Emma's theories on what makes for Very Good Poetry / Errata / evaluations / experimental poetry / experimental writing / Form / Happy accidents / influences / Inquiries into academics / Language systems / Maggie Nelson / Maps and legends / movements / mullings and ramblings / nonfiction / On being a poet / poems / poetry / Poetry Rock Stars / poetry superheroes / poets / publishing / publishing (or not publishing / ranting and raving / reading / readings / The avant-garde / the genre line (and stepping over it) / the lyric essay / Those Who Walk The Same Line / visual representations / writing community / writing life / You gotta have friends

Are We Après The Avant?*

In which Emma takes a lot of cold medicine and gets deep with her thoughts. Continue reading »

2012 / 365 / A festival of photos / A teacher's education / Academia / awesome / awesome kids we should all keep an eye out for / bad behavior in public places / books / cat macros / classroom / crafting / crafts / creative nonfiction / Creative Writing and the Web / creative writing pedagogy / Department of Writing and Linguistics / disagreeable/agreeable / drafts / education / edumacation / Eeyore / Emma is very lucky / Emma's attempts at normal life / Emma's attempts at real life (failed or otherwise) / Epic Cat Battles / EPIC WIN / extended metaphors / Film / Fish have bad intentions. / flickr / Free to Be You and Me / Georgia Southern / Gertrude Stein (feline version) / Going to eleven / gratuitous photos of whatnot / hopes and dreams / housekeeping / Huffy Henry hid the day away / instagram / Internet culture / internet fads / IRL Drama Llama / It is ON 2012 / kidney stones / kitteh / Language systems / learning / living without linebreaks / lolcats / memes / Milestones and suchness / Movin' on / mullings and ramblings / My meowing roommates / My nerves are bad tonight. Yes bad. / my students / nonfiction / On the book and putting it together / Online culture / pedagogy / Perspiration? Inspiration? / Photo for the day / Photography / pictorial representations / Retrospectitating / Retrospective / revision / shameless cat photos / summations / teaching / teaching writing / The Drama Llama / the genre line (and stepping over it) / The Great Kidney Stone Battle Royale of 2012 / The Year of Projects / toys / What Emma is up to / wonders and apparitions / writing life / writing teachers / You better work / [expletive deleted]

That Was The Week That Was: Week Thirty-Three

In which Emma has a crazy busy week and takes pictures of it. Continue reading »

2001: A Space Odyssey / 2012 / A teacher's education / Academia / Alice B. Toklas (feline version) / Alice B. Toklas (human version) / announcements / Another summer in a winter town / appearances / books / classroom / creative writing pedagogy / creepers / education / edumacation / Emma is very lucky / Emma's attempts at normal life / Emma's attempts at real life (failed or otherwise) / eyebrows / Fan Girl / Film / flickr / Georgia / Gertrude Stein (feline version) / Gertrude Stein (human version) / Going to eleven / gratuitous photos of whatnot / hopes and dreams / instagram / internet fads / It is ON 2012 / kitteh / learning / Live-Tweeting / living without linebreaks / Losing courage and other freakouts / movies / multi-tasking / My meowing roommates / pedagogy / perfection is boring. period. / Perspiration? Inspiration? / Photo for the day / Photography / plans / poets / ranting and raving / re-purposing / reading / readings / Resolutions / Retrospectitating / Retrospective / revision / Righting Wrongs / shameless cat photos / shameless self-promotion / Squee! / summations / Teacher Texts / teaching / teaching writing / That Was The Week That Was / The evolution of Emma / the genre line (and stepping over it) / The Year of Projects / Thoughts of a Nonfiction Fan Girl / Twitter / visual representations / What Emma is up to / writing community / writing life / writing teachers / You gotta have friends / [expletive deleted]

That Was The Week That Was: Week Twenty-Four

In which Emma talks about her week and stuff, you know, like she does. Continue reading »

2012 / 365 / A festival of photos / A teacher's education / Academia / Academic inquiries / accidental confessions / Alice B. Toklas (feline version) / Another summer in a winter town / Art and life and love and The Big Stuff / awesome / bad behavior in public places / book reviews / books / Chchchchanges / classroom / cool/not cool / creative nonfiction / creative writing pedagogy / education / edumacation / Emma is very lucky / Emma's attempts at normal life / Emma's attempts at real life (failed or otherwise) / Emma's dsyfunctional relationship with Diet Coke / Film / flickr / Found art / Free to Be You and Me / Georgia / Going to eleven / gratuitous photos of whatnot / How the iPhone changed my life / Inquiries into academics / inspiration / instagram / internet fads / It is ON 2012 / Lana Del Ray / learning / living without linebreaks / Lorrie Moore / multi-tasking / Mustachio'd Kitties / My meowing roommates / nonfiction / pedagogy / Pepsi-Cola / perfection is boring. period. / Photo for the day / Photography / random musings / reading / Retrospectitating / Retrospective / shameless cat photos / Squee! / submissions / Teacher Texts / teaching / teaching writing / That Was The Week That Was / The evolution of Emma / the genre line (and stepping over it) / The Summer of Lorrie Moore / Thoughts of a Nonfiction Fan Girl / What Emma is up to / where are you going where have you been / writing life / writing teachers / You gotta have friends

That Was The Week That Was: Week Twenty-Three

In which Emma writes a crappy summary because The Real Housewives is on. Continue reading »

2012 / 365 / A festival of photos / A teacher's education / Academia / accidental confessions / Alice B. Toklas (feline version) / Amazing discoveries and wondrous visions / bad behavior in public places / classroom / cool/not cool / creative writing pedagogy / Department of Writing and Linguistics / disagreeable/agreeable / education / edumacation / Epic Cat Battles / eyebrows / flickr / Free to Be You and Me / Georgia / Georgia Southern / Gertrude Stein (feline version) / gratuitous photos of whatnot / I really did go to a school called Our Lady of Sorrows / Inquiries into academics / instagram / It is ON 2012 / It's the end of the world as we know it / kitteh / learning / lolcats / Lorrie Moore / Losing courage and other freakouts / mullings and ramblings / Mustachio'd Kitties / My meowing roommates / my students / New Fangled Technology and Whatnot / pedagogy / Photo for the day / Photography / ranting and raving / reading / readings / sacrilicious / shameless cat photos / Squee! / Stick figures ARE art / teaching / teaching writing / Terrible unfunny puns / That Was The Week That Was / The evolution of Emma / the genre line (and stepping over it) / the heft of cathedral tunes / Thoughts of a Nonfiction Fan Girl / White Board / writing and not writing / writing space / writing teachers

That Was The Week That Was: Week Eighteen

Here is where I offer a short summary of my blog entry. Continue reading »

2012 / A manifesto of sorts / accidental confessions / Alice B. Toklas (feline version) / All-around amazing people / Amazing discoveries and wondrous visions / Art and life and love and The Big Stuff / awesome / bad behavior in public places / Bad girls and good girls gone bad / beer goggles / Bizarre associations and other odd tendencies / chapbooks / Chchchchanges / COLLECT! / cool/not cool / creative nonfiction / Cue the Golden Girls theme song / Department of Writing and Linguistics / disagreeable/agreeable / disappearances / drafts / Emma is very lucky / Emma's dsyfunctional relationship with Diet Coke / EPIC WIN / family / Fear and how to face it / flickr / Free to Be You and Me / Future husbands / gardening / Georgia / Georgia Southern / Gertrude Stein (feline version) / Gertrude Stein (human version) / Going to eleven / gratuitous photos of whatnot / Happy accidents / hopes and dreams / inspiration / instagram / internet fads / It is ON 2012 / it is ON. / It's the end of the world as we know it / Jellyfish / Lana Del Ray / learning / learning patience slowly / living without linebreaks / Losing courage and other freakouts / mariners and the seas etc. / Movin' on / mullings and ramblings / multi-tasking / music / Mustachio'd Kitties / My addiction to terrible television / My Future Husband Josh Groban / My meowing roommates / My nerves are bad tonight. Yes bad. / my students / NaPoMo / NaPoWriMo / nonfiction / Notebooks / odd comparisons and awkward metaphors / On the book and putting it together / Other Poets / perfection is boring. period. / Perspiration? Inspiration? / Photo for the day / Photography / poem challenge / poems / poetry / Poetry as therapy / Poetry Exercises / Probably quite a bit TMI / ranting and raving / Resolutions / Retrospectitating / Retrospective / revision / shameless cat photos / Shifting metaphors / Simon and Garfunkel / Squee! / summations / Thanks and thanks again / The evolution of Emma / the genre line (and stepping over it) / The Hunger Games / the lyric essay / The only living boy in New York / the poem factory / The siege in the room / The Year of Projects / This entry brought to you by Tender Buttons / this is the end beautiful friend / Those Who Walk The Same Line / thought for the day / training / Uncategorized / What Emma is up to / where are you going where have you been / Who The Eff Cares? / wonders and apparitions / writing and not writing / writing community / writing life / writing room / writing space / writing teachers / You gotta have friends / [expletive deleted]

The Four-Month Grind: Stats and Averages

Player Stats and Data for Emma Bolden’s Four-Month-Long Writing Something A Day Project Continue reading »

mullings and ramblings / the poem factory / writing life / thought for the day / random musings / the genre line (and stepping over it) / cool/not cool / influences / Perspiration? Inspiration? / Notebooks / A festival of photos / where are you going where have you been / disagreeable/agreeable / edumacation / living without linebreaks / Losing courage and other freakouts / A teacher's education / Fine art versus pop art / Writing Anew / learning patience slowly / Amazing discoveries and wondrous visions / Art and life and love and The Big Stuff / Poetry as therapy / On the book and putting it together / 365 / writing and not writing / Epic Fail? EPIC WIN! / Photo for the day

“Art Isn’t Easy — Any Way You Look At It.”

In which Emma talks about the art of making art. Continue reading »

A festival of linkage / A manifesto of sorts / accidental confessions / Amazing discoveries and wondrous visions / Art and life and love and The Big Stuff / awesome presses / book reviews / Confessionalism / edumacation / Emma is very lucky / Emma's theories on what makes for Very Good Poetry / EPIC WIN / Fight the power! / Fine art versus pop art / Language systems / living without linebreaks / On the book and putting it together / Poems I should probably pay a lot more attention to / Poetry Rock Stars / Poets I should probably pay more attention to / Power to the People / publishing (or not publishing / random musings / ranting and raving / readings / Sewanee Young Writers' Conference / summations / the genre line (and stepping over it) / The power and the money / The Thoughts of a Poetry Fan Girl / The Twelve Days of Blogging / wonders and apparitions / You gotta have friends

On the eighth day of Christmas, Emma writes a book review . . .

In which Emma discusses the difficulties, dangers, and delight of writing a book review. Continue reading »

A festival of linkage / A festival of photos / A manifesto of sorts / accidental confessions / Alabama School of Fine Arts / Amazing discoveries and wondrous visions / awesome kids we should all keep an eye out for / bad behavior in public places / Chchchchanges / Emily Dickinson = The Ultimate / Emma is very lucky / EPIC WIN / Georgetown College / hopes and dreams / mullings and ramblings / Perspiration? Inspiration? / ranting and raving / re-purposing / Recharging the mental batteries / teaching / the genre line (and stepping over it) / the heft of cathedral tunes / the lyric essay / where are you going where have you been / Writing Anew / writing life / You gotta have friends

“Life has a loveliness to sell”

In which Emma reflects upon Emmas past and present. Continue reading »