Emma Bolden

When the squall line quickened, the room became aching. The room became wool. No god was there. (from “Downburst“) I’ve got two poems in the latest issue of Foundry — “Downburst” and “A Breviary.” You can find them both here. While you’re there, you’re going to want to stick around for a while and check…

I haven’t posted in a thousand forevers. Forgive me. I’ve been shoulder-deep in poems and drafts and, I will be honest, a lot of videos of corgis, especially corgis belonging to the Queen. Corgi care is self-care, y’all. I have been tremendously lucky lately to have some amazing journals take a chance on my work.…

If you’re looking for warmth this cold February Sunday, I’ve got three poems out in the online world to keep you company. First up is “Edit,” published in the Fall 2016 issue of Causeway Lit. I’m proud to say that it won first place in the Fall 2016 contest, and poetry editor Lauren Palmbach wrote…

I’ve got three poems up in the new issue of TriQuarterly: “Yes, I Would Like to Imagine the Self,” “The Imposition of Ashes,” and “Hysterectomy/Recovery.” There’s a recording of me reading each poem, which you can listen to while looking at a photograph of the time I tried to do Valley of the Dolls hair and…

I’m going the start this, my final blog post of 2016, with what remains the strangest, most surreal, most amazing and wonderful and exciting sentence I have typed to date: I’m humbled, honored, and honestly still just super shocked to say that I was the recipient of a 2017 Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry, which…