Category: poems
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“Plenary Absolution” in The Adroit Journal
In the inexcusable distance between myself & God I built a house, I fenced my taxes, I filed & folded, I mowed my forgiveness into a fine fringe … from “Plenary Absolution” I’m thrilled, honored, and humbled to say that I’ve got a new poem called “Plenary Absolution” in the latest issue of The…
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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.
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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 -
Revisionings
In which Emma talks about being uncomfortable, which is her general state of being. But.
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A teacher’s education, Art and life and love and The Big Stuff, awesome, classroom, cool/not cool, creative nonfiction, creative writing, creative writing pedagogy, Department of Writing and Linguistics, disagreeable/agreeable, Doing, education, edumacation, Emma is very lucky, Emma’s theories on what makes for Very Good Poetry, False Dichotomies, Fear and how to face it, Free to Be You and Me, Georgia Southern, Home, learning, Losing courage and other freakouts, my students, pedagogy, poems, poetry, poets, re-purposing, revision, writing community, writing life, writing teachers -
“Back in black / I hit the sack / I been too long / I’m glad to be back.”
In which Emma learns that if you put linebreaks in AC/DC lyrics they seem very important.
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2013 is the year of Awesome, accidental confessions, Amazing discoveries and wondrous visions, Another summer in a winter town, Art and life and love and The Big Stuff, Artist’s Renditions, bright shining spots in the very much dark, Circumstances, creative nonfiction, creative writing, disappearances, Doing, DUENDE, Emma hits a wall, Emma’s attempts at normal life, Emma’s attempts at real life (failed or otherwise), Errata, Fear and how to face it, INTENSE, Losing courage and other freakouts, My nerves are bad tonight. Yes bad., poems, poetry, Poetry as therapy, Shifting metaphors, the blank page, The Drama Llama, the heft of cathedral tunes, The only living boy in New York, thought for the day, what I don’t write about, where are you going where have you been, writing and not writing, writing life, writing space -
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
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