Category: 2013 is the year of Awesome

• There is no Frigate like Book

  In which Emma rambles about reading for a while and also, of course, offers a cat photo.

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  June 25, 2013

  2013 is the year of Awesome, A manifesto of sorts, A teacher’s education, Amazing discoveries and wondrous visions, Art and life and love and The Big Stuff, books, bright shining spots in the very much dark, Circumstances, Dad, disagreeable/agreeable, Emily Dickinson, Emily Dickinson = The Ultimate, Emma is very lucky, Emma's Awkward Adolescence, Fiction, Gertrude Stein (feline version), How Emily Dickinson changed (saved?) my life, My meowing roommates, re-purposing, reading, readings, Recharging the mental batteries, rejection, rejection slippage, revision, shameless cat photos, Should Books Be More Your Size, stalled, The evolution of Emma, wonders and apparitions, writing and not writing, Writing Anew, writing life

• Houses are jerks.

  In which Emma kinda comes back from hiatus to talk a little bit about a poem and how houses make her nervous.

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  June 3, 2013

  2013 is the year of Awesome, All-around amazing people, appearances, bad behavior in public places, Bizarre associations and other odd tendencies, Cats in Bags, Emma is very lucky, Gertrude Stein (feline version), Home, housekeeping, inspiration, instagram, kitteh, My meowing roommates, poems, poetry, poets, publishing, shameless cat photos, shameless self-promotion, Squee!, Thanks and thanks again, The grind, the poem factory, wonders and apparitions, writing community, writing life, You gotta have friends

• The Accidental Professor

  When I was a little kid and we went to the beach, I always had this strange and terrifying and utterly disorienting moment where I’d think to myself this is our first day at the beach; we have four more days at the beach, and then this vacation is over.  That sentence, I now realize, […]

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  May 9, 2013

  2013 is the year of Awesome, A teacher’s education, Academia, Academic inquiries, accidental confessions, Another summer in a winter town, Art and life and love and The Big Stuff, awesome, Bizarre associations and other odd tendencies, Chchchchanges, childhood ailments and other daily disasters, creative writing, disappearances, DUENDE, education, edumacation, Embarrassing stories, Emma is very lucky, Emma's Awkward Adolescence, Emma’s Adventures in Over-Analyzing, Emma’s attempts at normal life, Emma’s attempts at real life (failed or otherwise), Fear and how to face it, graduate school, gratuitous photos of whatnot, Happy accidents, learning, Losing courage and other freakouts, Movin’ on, My nerves are bad tonight. Yes bad., my students, odd comparisons and awkward metaphors, overthinking, pedagogy, Scenes from my childhood, So long, teaching, teaching writing, the heft of cathedral tunes, the three jobs, thought for the day, where are you going where have you been, writing community, writing teachers

• A Reading and A Dinosaur

  Are you going to be in the general Statesboro, Georgia area around, say 2:30 tomorrow?  And are you looking for something awesome to do?  Because there’s something awesome going on in the general Statesboro, Georgia area around 2:30 tomorrow — specifically, that something awesome is going on the Georgia Southern University campus, at the Georgia […]

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  April 19, 2013

  2013 is the year of Awesome, All-around amazing people, announcements, appearances, Artist’s Renditions, Georgia, Georgia Southern, Going to eleven, Google, Maleficae, Malificae, reading, readings, velociraptors, visual representations

• The Story Behind “The Damage”

  In which Emma has a dream come true and talks about it for you. AND MAKES HER SUMMARY RHYME.

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  April 14, 2013

  2013 is the year of Awesome, accidental confessions, Amazing discoveries and wondrous visions, announcements, appearances, awesome, awesome presses, BOOM., Breaking up is hard to do, Chchchchanges, COLLECT!, contemporary poetry, Corrections, crafting, crafts, creative nonfiction, creative writing, Dear Johns from the Po Biz, Emma is very lucky, EPIC WIN, Glitter (pretty version), Going to eleven, gratitude, hopes and dreams, inspiration, Internet culture, Letters to Inanimate Objects, living without linebreaks, love, love poems, magazines, Milestones and suchness, Movin’ on, nonfiction, One Can Find Me Here (Or At Least My Words), Online culture, Online literary magazines, Other Lit Mags One Should Admire, Other Poets, Other Presses We Should All Be Looking At, poem challenge, poem for the day, poems, poetry, Poetry Daily, poets, publishing, publishing (or not publishing, rejection, rejection slippage, relationships, revision, shameless self-promotion, Squee!, Stationary Objects and Collisions Therewith, submissions, Thanks and thanks again, The big move, the genre line (and stepping over it), The grind, the poem factory, The Secret Life of Objects, Very Excellent News, where are you going where have you been, Where You Can Find Me (Or At Least My Words), wonders and apparitions, writing life, You gotta have friends