Month: March 2013

• There’s Gonna Be Some Changes Around Here

  In which Emma explains what the heck is going on with the blog for God’s sake.

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  March 31, 2013

  A manifesto of sorts, A teacher’s education, Academia, Academic inquiries, accidental confessions, Art and life and love and The Big Stuff, avant-garde, blogging, books, Chchchchanges, COLLECT!, Creative Writing and the Web, education, edumacation, Emma’s Adventures in Over-Analyzing, Emma’s attempts at normal life, Emma’s attempts at real life (failed or otherwise), Form, Free to Be You and Me, GenPop Books, Going to eleven, Inquiries into academics, Internet culture, internet fads, John Stossel, Malificae, Movin’ on, mullings and ramblings, NaPoMo, NaPoWriMo, Online culture, overthinking, perfection is boring. period., poems, poetry, poets, re-purposing, shameless self-promotion, teaching, teaching writing, textbooks, The evolution of Emma, What Emma is up to, writing and not writing, Writing Anew

• Are We Après The Avant?*

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

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  March 24, 2013

  “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

• Dear Mr. Coffee

  Dear Mr. Coffee, I have, yet again, felt the terror of your hatred and disdain. At this point, it’s all too clear: we have grown apart, and so have our wants and needs. It’s over, Mr. Coffee. I wish you the best. And no, we cannot be friends. Good luck with your future endeavors at […]

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  March 21, 2013

  A brief break from the poetry, announcements, Chchchchanges, COLLECT!, disagreeable/agreeable, disappearances, Emma’s attempts at normal life, Emma’s attempts at real life (failed or otherwise), EPIC FAIL, failed or otherwise, Failure Schmailure, Fight the power!, grief, ill omens, it is ON., Letters to Inanimate Objects, love, Movin’ on, NOT COOL., Photo for the day, pictorial representations, rejection, relationships, So long, Stationary Objects and Collisions Therewith, visual representations, [expletive deleted]

  Letters to inanimate objects, love, over, relationships

• Things 20/20 Has Made Me Fear

  In which Emma tries something different by offering an important list.

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  March 19, 2013

  A brief break from the poetry, Brief Updating, childhood ailments and other daily disasters, cool/not cool, disagreeable/agreeable, DUENDE, Emma’s Adventures in Over-Analyzing, Fear and how to face it, gratuitous photos of whatnot, ill omens, INTENSE, IRL Drama Llama, It’s the end of the world as we know it, John Stossel, lists, Losing courage and other freakouts, My meowing roommates, NOT COOL., overthinking, pictorial representations, The Drama Llama, visual representations

• AWP: Traditions, Revisions, Permissions (Or I’m Okay, You’re Okay, Let’s Skip The Dance Party)

  She doesn’t even go here!

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  March 18, 2013

  2013 is the year of Awesome, A manifesto of sorts, A teacher’s education, Academia, Academic inquiries, Amazing discoveries and wondrous visions, Art and life and love and The Big Stuff, awesome, AWP, AWP 2013, AWP Boston, bad behavior in public places, books, bright shining spots in the very much dark, Chchchchanges, contemporary poetry, Corrections, Cue the Golden Girls theme song, disagreeable/agreeable, education, edumacation, Emily Dickinson = The Ultimate, Emma is very lucky, Emma’s Adventures in Over-Analyzing, Emma’s attempts at real life (failed or otherwise), Emma’s theories on what makes for Very Good Poetry, Epic, EPIC WIN, evaluations, events, Failure Schmailure, False Dichotomies, Fight the power!, Free to Be You and Me, Friendship Is Magic, Going to eleven, graduate school, Home, hopes and dreams, Inquiries into academics, inspiration, Instructions, learning, learning patience slowly, Losing courage and other freakouts, Maps and legends, META, MFA, mullings and ramblings, On being a poet, perfection is boring. period., Perspiration? Inspiration?, poems, poetry, poets, Power to the People, publishing, publishing (or not publishing, random musings, ranting and raving, re-purposing, Recharging the mental batteries, rejection, rejection slippage, Retrospective, summations, teaching, teaching writing, The evolution of Emma, the poem factory, The power and the money, The Thoughts of a Poetry Fan Girl, the three jobs, thought for the day, where are you going where have you been, Who The Eff Cares?, wonders and apparitions, Words of Wisdom, writers conferences, writing and not writing, Writing Anew, writing community, writing life, writing space, writing teachers, You better work, You gotta have friends