Category: Very Excellent News

• 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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  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

• Sometimes things are exciting …

  In which Emma talks about some Seriously Exciting Things and gives so many links your head may explode with all the awesome.

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  March 3, 2013

  2013 is the year of Awesome, A festival of linkage, A festival of photos, A teacher’s education, Academia, Academic inquiries, accidental confessions, All-around amazing people, Amazing discoveries and wondrous visions, announcements, appearances, Art and life and love and The Big Stuff, awesome, awesome kids we should all keep an eye out for, awesome presses, AWP, AWP 2013, AWP Boston, bad behavior in public places, Bad girls and good girls gone bad, Bizarre associations and other odd tendencies, book signings, books, bright shining spots in the very much dark, chapbooks, COLLECT!, contemporary poetry, Cue the Golden Girls theme song, Department of Writing and Linguistics, education, edumacation, Emily Dickinson = The Ultimate, Emma is very lucky, Emma’s attempts at normal life, Emma’s attempts at real life (failed or otherwise), Emma’s theories on what makes for Very Good Poetry, EPIC WIN, events, Fan Girl, Free to Be You and Me, Georgia Southern, Going to eleven, gratitude, Indian Springs School Visiting Writers Series, Inquiries into academics, inspiration, instagram, Internet culture, IRL Drama Llama, it is ON., Kate Greenstreet, learning, my students, One Can Find Me Here (Or At Least My Words), Online culture, Pass it on!, plans, poems, poetry, Poetry Rock Stars, poetry superheroes, poets, reading, readings, Sarah Lawrence College, schedules, shameless self-promotion, Sicilian slang, Squee!, teaching, teaching writing, The latest medical anomaly, The Witch Trials, Very Excellent News, What Emma is up to, where are you going where have you been, Where You Can Find Me (Or At Least My Words), wonders and apparitions, writers conferences, writing community, writing life, writing teachers, You better work, You gotta have friends

• The Witches Are Flying Your Way

  In which Emma invites the people of the greater Birmingham area to come and hear her and Kate Greenstreet read. Y’all, it’s gonna be a THING.

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  February 16, 2013

  All-around amazing people, announcements, appearances, awesome, bad behavior in public places, books, COLLECT!, contemporary poetry, Emma is very lucky, Epic, EPIC WIN, GenPop Books, Going to eleven, gratitude, Home, hopes and dreams, Indian Springs School Visiting Writers Series, INTENSE, it is ON., Kate Greenstreet, Malificae, Pass it on!, poems, poetry, poets, reading, readings, Squee!, The Thoughts of a Poetry Fan Girl, The Witch Trials, Very Excellent News, What Emma is up to, where are you going where have you been