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

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 »

2013 is the year of Awesome / appearances / bad behavior in public places / BOOM. / coffee / creepers / Cue the Golden Girls theme song / Doing / Embarrassing stories / Emma is very lucky / Emma's Adventures in Over-Analyzing / Emma's attempts at normal life / Emma's attempts at real life (failed or otherwise) / Emma's theories on what makes for Very Good Poetry / Epic Cat Battles / Fear and how to face it / Free to Be You and Me / Frills and Fancies / Gertrude Stein (feline version) / Going to eleven / gratuitous photos of whatnot / Language systems / Losing courage and other freakouts / mullings and ramblings / Mustachio'd Kitties / My meowing roommates / My nerves are bad tonight. Yes bad. / NaPoMo / New Fangled Technology and Whatnot / overthinking / perfection is boring. period. / Photography / poems / poetry / reading / readings / shameless cat photos / Statesboro / Stationary Objects and Collisions Therewith / summations / Thanks and thanks again / The Hunger Games / the poem factory / The Secret Life of Objects / thought for the day / What Emma is up to / Where You Can Find Me (Or At Least My Words) / writing life / You gotta have friends

Radio Free Gertrude

In which Emma writes about why it’s really hard for her to not bring up the formal wear store Frills and Fancies in every conversation, and also talks about her cats, duh. Continue reading »

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Sometimes things are exciting …

In which Emma talks about some Seriously Exciting Things and gives so many links your head may explode with all the awesome. Continue reading »

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2012: The Year of Living Transparently (PART ONE)

In which Emma offers the first part of her two-part year-end wrap up. Also there’s probably a metaphor in here that goes on for way too long. Continue reading »

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Breeding Lilacs Out of the Dead Land

In which Emma shares her plans to write and write and write some more in celebration of National Poetry Month. Continue reading »

A festival of linkage / A festival of photos / Amazing discoveries and wondrous visions / announcements / appearances / Art and life and love and The Big Stuff / awesome kids we should all keep an eye out for / Emma is very lucky / EPIC WIN / Frank O'Hara / hopes and dreams / Inquiries into academics / inspiration / mullings and ramblings / Online literary magazines / Pass it on! / SCHMOE! / shameless self-promotion / Squee! / teaching / The Center for Gifted Studies / VAMPY / Verbally and Methematically Precocious Youth / Very Excellent News / where are you going where have you been / Where You Can Find Me (Or At Least My Words) / WKU / wonders and apparitions

“Go back to sleep now / Frank, and I may leave a tiny poem / in that brain of yours as my farewell.”

In which Emma discusses how sad she is to leave VAMPY, and remembers her misbegotten Youth. Continue reading »

A festival of linkage / A teacher's education / announcements / awesome kids we should all keep an eye out for / bad behavior in public places / Brief Updating / edumacation / Emma is very lucky / Emma's dsyfunctional relationship with Diet Coke / EPIC WIN / Even goddesses get insulted / Mission to Make Emma Cool / pedagogy / Perspiration? Inspiration? / Poetry as therapy / Ruby-eyed panther canes / SCHMOE! / Stick Figure Pedagogy / Stick figures ARE art / teaching / The Drama Llama / The latest medical anomaly / VAMPY / Verbally and Methematically Precocious Youth / Violent and graphic Greek tragedies / Where You Can Find Me (Or At Least My Words) / wonders and apparitions

The Greek Pantheon, Stick Figures, Britney Spears’ Poetry, and Schmoe

In which Emma discusses her first day of VAMPY. Continue reading »