Category: AWP 2013

• Are We Après The Avant?*

  In which Emma takes a lot of cold medicine and gets deep with her thoughts.

  emmabolden

  March 24, 2013

  “The Glass Essay”, A manifesto of sorts, Academia, Academic inquiries, aesthetic theory, Anne Carson, Art and life and love and The Big Stuff, Artist’s Renditions, avant-garde, AWP, AWP 2013, AWP Boston, balance, books, color-coding, contemporary poetry, creative nonfiction, Creative Writing Scholarship, criticism, definitions, education, edumacation, Emily Dickinson, Emily Dickinson = The Ultimate, Emma’s Adventures in Over-Analyzing, Emma’s theories on what makes for Very Good Poetry, Errata, evaluations, experimental poetry, experimental writing, Form, Happy accidents, influences, Inquiries into academics, Language systems, Maggie Nelson, Maps and legends, movements, mullings and ramblings, nonfiction, On being a poet, poems, poetry, Poetry Rock Stars, poetry superheroes, poets, publishing, publishing (or not publishing, ranting and raving, reading, readings, The avant-garde, the genre line (and stepping over it), the lyric essay, Those Who Walk The Same Line, visual representations, writing community, writing life, You gotta have friends

• AWP: Traditions, Revisions, Permissions (Or I’m Okay, You’re Okay, Let’s Skip The Dance Party)

  She doesn’t even go here!

  emmabolden

  March 18, 2013

  2013 is the year of Awesome, A manifesto of sorts, A teacher’s education, Academia, Academic inquiries, Amazing discoveries and wondrous visions, Art and life and love and The Big Stuff, awesome, AWP, AWP 2013, AWP Boston, bad behavior in public places, books, bright shining spots in the very much dark, Chchchchanges, contemporary poetry, Corrections, Cue the Golden Girls theme song, disagreeable/agreeable, education, edumacation, Emily Dickinson = The Ultimate, Emma is very lucky, Emma’s Adventures in Over-Analyzing, Emma’s attempts at real life (failed or otherwise), Emma’s theories on what makes for Very Good Poetry, Epic, EPIC WIN, evaluations, events, Failure Schmailure, False Dichotomies, Fight the power!, Free to Be You and Me, Friendship Is Magic, Going to eleven, graduate school, Home, hopes and dreams, Inquiries into academics, inspiration, Instructions, learning, learning patience slowly, Losing courage and other freakouts, Maps and legends, META, MFA, mullings and ramblings, On being a poet, perfection is boring. period., Perspiration? Inspiration?, poems, poetry, poets, Power to the People, publishing, publishing (or not publishing, random musings, ranting and raving, re-purposing, Recharging the mental batteries, rejection, rejection slippage, Retrospective, summations, teaching, teaching writing, The evolution of Emma, the poem factory, The power and the money, The Thoughts of a Poetry Fan Girl, the three jobs, thought for the day, where are you going where have you been, Who The Eff Cares?, wonders and apparitions, Words of Wisdom, writers conferences, writing and not writing, Writing Anew, writing community, writing life, writing space, writing teachers, You better work, You gotta have friends

• Melting Winter Death Blizzard Saturn Storm AWP Rejections: The Final Countdown

  emmabolden

  March 11, 2013

  AWP, AWP 2013, AWP Boston, rejection, Uncategorized

• Winter Storm Saturn Barbaric AWP Rejections Two and Three

  I call this “Rejection: Your Personal Space Is My Personal Space (Or At Least The Personal Space Of My White Jeans And Puffy Jacket) (Oh And Also All Of My Many Not-Pictured Bags) I call this “Rejection: What Rhymes With ‘Escalator?’ WHO CARESALATER. Stairs For You, Poets!”

  emmabolden

  March 7, 2013

  2013 is the year of Awesome, AWP, AWP 2013, AWP Boston, rejection

  AWP, AWP 2013, AWP Boston, rejection

• Winter Storm Saturn Barbaric AWP Rejections Two and Three

  I call this “Rejection: Your Personal Space Is My Personal Space (Or At Least The Personal Space Of My White Jeans And Puffy Jacket) (Oh And Also All Of My Many Not-Pictured Bags) I call this “Rejection: What Rhymes With ‘Escalator?’ WHO CARESALATER. Stairs For You, Poets!”

  emmabolden

  March 7, 2013

  2013 is the year of Awesome, AWP, AWP 2013, AWP Boston, rejection

  AWP, AWP 2013, AWP Boston, rejection