Emma Bolden

… and if you’re in the general Bloomington, Illinois area, we could totally hang out. I’m happy and humbled to say I’m heading up to Illinois tomorrow to read in the Spoon River Poetry Review Lucia Getsi Reading Series. I’ll be reading along with Ewa Chrusciel and Jonah Mixon-Webster Thursday (tomorrow!) night at 7 PM…

Here’s the thing I have to say before I say anything else: I am very lucky. Very, very lucky. I knew that I wanted to write poetry when I was in second grade.  I still remember the moment.  I still remember sitting in the back row of Miss Hanks’ class, bored with class and bored…

I’ve seen so many posts this morning and this week and on so many different social media sites — Facebook and Instagram and Tumblr and even Yik Yak, for God’s sake — about people spending Christmas alone with their cats and feeling very, very, terribly lonely, and it made me feel — well, awful. Because…

I’m struggling in the land of constantly-dropping Internets, which is really difficult because there are so many pictures of cats on the Internets right now, and so many of those photographs involve cats in Christmas trees and engaged in epic battles with Christmas ornaments and I can’t even write about this anymore because I’ll weep. …