Emma Bolden

I’m really excited to say I’ve got a poem in the inaugural issue of Sinking City. It’s a new journal from the University of Miami‘s MFA program in Creative Writing — and the incomparably amazing Chantel Acevedo is their faculty sponsor. The poem’s called “Under Threat of Eden,” and it’s the break-through poem I mentioned…

I’m proud to say that I’ve got a short essay — “To Mourn Excessively; To Lost, Forfeit, Or Misplace” — in the first issue of Windmill, a journal of art and literature out of Hofstra University. The title and quotes come from Melancholia, a gorgeous book by the incomparable Kristina Marie Darling, which is one…

A poem of mine, “Beneath the Highway, Between Two Nights,” is up at the museum of americana. It’s a beautiful issue and I’m proud to be part of it and hope you’ll read all of it. In the meantime, I’m keeping the promise I made in my last post by talking a little about how…

Full disclosure: At the end of this post, I’m going to provide a link to a poem of mine that was recently published — but I wanted to say some things first. In a lot of ways, the poetry world has become the Internet world; in a lot of ways, this has saved the poetry…

I am beyond excited to say that on Saturday, I’ll be reading in the Impossible Language reading series at the Mid-South Book Festival. I’m thrilled and honored and especially excited to hear the three other poets read. Thank you to Aaron Brame and Ashley Roach-Freiman for giving me this opportunity! Playhouse on the Square, September…