Category: inspiration
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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.
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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 -
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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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 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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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 -
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] -
AWP: Traditions, Revisions, Permissions (Or I’m Okay, You’re Okay, Let’s Skip The Dance Party)
She doesn’t even go here!
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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
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