Category: Emily Dickinson

• There is no Frigate like Book

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

  emmabolden

  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

• 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