Category: Going to eleven

• Event(s on the) Horizon

  This isn’t about American Horror Story, so you don’t have to yell at me. It is about events I will soon be a part of, so if you want to yell at me in person, well, here’s how.

  emmabolden

  November 7, 2013

  2013 is the year of Awesome, All-around amazing people, Amazing discoveries and wondrous visions, appearances, bad behavior in public places, book signings, BOOM., creative writing, Department of Writing and Linguistics, Embarrassing stories, Emma is very lucky, Emma’s Adventures in Over-Analyzing, Fiction, GenPop Books, Georgia, Georgia Southern, Going to eleven, graduate school, gratitude, Happy accidents, Maleficae, poems, poetry, Statesboro, The Write Place Festival, UNCW, Writers Week Symposium

• Everything I Need to Know I Learned from Alice B. Toklas*

  In which Emma learns a very important lesson from her cat. And no, it’s not about sleeping or world domination or getting more cats.

  emmabolden

  July 14, 2013

  2013 is the year of Awesome, A teacher’s education, aesthetic theory, Alice B. Toklas (feline version), Alice B. Toklas (human version), Art and life and love and The Big Stuff, creative writing, Doing, 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 Cat Battles, eyebrows, Fear and how to face it, Free to Be You and Me, Gertrude Stein (feline version), Going to eleven, inspiration, kitteh, learning, learning patience slowly, lolcats, My meowing roommates, perfection is boring. period., Perspiration? Inspiration?, Photo for the day, poems, poetry, re-purposing, revision, shameless cat photos, Shifting metaphors, Stationary Objects and Collisions Therewith, The Drama Llama, The evolution of Emma, The Feline Biography of Alice B. Toklas, The grind, the poem factory, The Videography of Alice B. Toklas, There is no try, This entry brought to you by Tender Buttons, thought for the day, What Emma is up to, wonders and apparitions, Words of Wisdom, writing and not writing, Writing Anew, writing life, You better work

• It’s that time again, folks.

  In which Emma offers a visual representation of the end of the semester as an explanation as to why she hasn’t been blogging lately. WARNING: TERRIFYING MIMES.

  emmabolden

  May 5, 2013

  A teacher’s education, Academia, accidental confessions, Brief Updating, bright shining spots in the very much dark, classroom, COLLECT!, creative writing pedagogy, disagreeable/agreeable, disappearances, Epic, Going to eleven, INTENSE, IRL Drama Llama, multi-tasking, NaPoMo, NaPoWriMo, nonappearances, NOT COOL., Perspiration? Inspiration?, pictorial representations, teaching, teaching writing, The Drama Llama, The Horror The Horror, The latest medical anomaly, velociraptors, visual representations, What Emma is up to, where are you going where have you been, writing teachers, You better work

• 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…

  emmabolden

  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.

  emmabolden

  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