Category: Academic inquiries
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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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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 -
Home, Where My Love Lies Waiting, Silently For Me
In which Emma kind of goes on a rant, basically.
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A manifesto of sorts, A teacher’s education, Academia, Academic inquiries, Alabama, books, creative nonfiction, creative writing, education, Emma's Awkward Adolescence, Emma’s Adventures in Over-Analyzing, Errata, Free to Be You and Me, Georgia, Home, Inquiries into academics, Lia Purpura = AMAZING, mullings and ramblings, nonfiction, Power to the People, random musings, ranting and raving, reading, readings, Teacher Texts, teaching writing, The evolution of Emma, thought for the day, Thoughts of a Nonfiction Fan Girl, Where I Often Travel -
Are There Things That Are Important Beyond All This Fiddle? Or NaPoWriMo and You
In which Emma rationalizes her decision to write and post a poem a day along with her students. Publicly. No, really.
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2013 is the year of Awesome, A manifesto of sorts, A teacher’s education, Academia, Academic inquiries, accidental confessions, aesthetic theory, All-around amazing people, Amazing discoveries and wondrous visions, appearances, Art and life and love and The Big Stuff, awesome kids we should all keep an eye out for, bad behavior in public places, bright shining spots in the very much dark, classroom, COLLECT!, cool/not cool, creative writing, creative writing pedagogy, Department of Writing and Linguistics, disagreeable/agreeable, Doing, drafts, education, edumacation, Embarrassing stories, Emma is very lucky, Epic Fail? EPIC WIN!, Failure Schmailure, Fear and how to face it, Free to Be You and Me, Georgia Southern, Going to eleven, Inquiries into academics, inspiration, Internet culture, it is ON., learning, Losing courage and other freakouts, my students, NaPoMo, NaPoWriMo, On being a poet, Online culture, pedagogy, perfection is boring. period., Perspiration? Inspiration?, pictorial representations, poems, poetry, Poetry Exercises, teaching, teaching writing, The evolution of Emma, The grind, the poem factory, There is no try, What Emma is up to, wonders and apparitions, writing community, writing life, writing teachers, You better work, [expletive deleted] -
There’s Gonna Be Some Changes Around Here
In which Emma explains what the heck is going on with the blog for God’s sake.
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A manifesto of sorts, A teacher’s education, Academia, Academic inquiries, accidental confessions, Art and life and love and The Big Stuff, avant-garde, blogging, books, Chchchchanges, COLLECT!, Creative Writing and the Web, education, edumacation, Emma’s Adventures in Over-Analyzing, Emma’s attempts at normal life, Emma’s attempts at real life (failed or otherwise), Form, Free to Be You and Me, GenPop Books, Going to eleven, Inquiries into academics, Internet culture, internet fads, John Stossel, Malificae, Movin’ on, mullings and ramblings, NaPoMo, NaPoWriMo, Online culture, overthinking, perfection is boring. period., poems, poetry, poets, re-purposing, shameless self-promotion, teaching, teaching writing, textbooks, The evolution of Emma, What Emma is up to, writing and not writing, Writing Anew -
Are We Après The Avant?*
In which Emma takes a lot of cold medicine and gets deep with her thoughts.
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