Emma Bolden

I first fell in love with Mark Strand’s work in eighth grade, when our teacher assigned The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry and I devoured every single page.  Mark Strand’s work made me stop and sit and think for a spell, and that spell never ended.  The pages that carry his words have been…

This morning marked the beginning of the Delirious Hem Advent Calendar, co-curated by the incredible Jessica Smith and the incredible Susana Gardner, who are as magical as a duo of poetry-powered pegasi (pegasuses?  I’m going with pegasi).  This year, the poems are in response to a call for poems about the rape culture so terrifyingly…

The rise, fall, and (most importantly) triumphant return of Ms. Britney Jean Spears; the honorific “Ms.”; Ms. Magazine; my parents for buying me copies of Ms. Magazine at the Hoover Barnes and Noble when I was in 8th grade; having survived 8th grade and every other awkward adolescent year; the terrible, awkward, beautiful experience of…

PRE-SCRIPT: If you’ve already read this, please forgive me the re-post.  I posted it on Creative Sweet, the GSU Department of Writing and Linguistics’ Creative Writing blog, but I’ve been thinking and re-thinking through it ever since and wanted to post it here, as well.  Tonight, on All Soul’s Day, when the time lost its…

I’m proud, honored, and thrilled to say that my nonfiction chapbook, Geography V, is now available for pre-order, with a release date of October 15th.  Geography V is a series of lyric essays examining not only how the relationships human beings build are fractured and fissured by distance, but how, in love, the self is…