Category: writing life
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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 -
Radio Free Gertrude
In which Emma writes about why it’s really hard for her to not bring up the formal wear store Frills and Fancies in every conversation, and also talks about her cats, duh.
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2013 is the year of Awesome, appearances, bad behavior in public places, BOOM., coffee, creepers, Cue the Golden Girls theme song, Doing, Embarrassing stories, Emma is very lucky, Emma’s Adventures in Over-Analyzing, 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 Cat Battles, Fear and how to face it, Free to Be You and Me, Frills and Fancies, Gertrude Stein (feline version), Going to eleven, gratuitous photos of whatnot, Language systems, Losing courage and other freakouts, mullings and ramblings, Mustachio’d Kitties, My meowing roommates, My nerves are bad tonight. Yes bad., NaPoMo, New Fangled Technology and Whatnot, overthinking, perfection is boring. period., Photography, poems, poetry, reading, readings, shameless cat photos, Statesboro, Stationary Objects and Collisions Therewith, summations, Thanks and thanks again, The Hunger Games, the poem factory, The Secret Life of Objects, thought for the day, What Emma is up to, Where You Can Find Me (Or At Least My Words), writing life, You gotta have friends -
“And on the radio you hear ‘November Rain;’ that solo’s awful long, but it’s got a good refrain.”*
In which I announce the fact that I’m going to be on the radio tomorrow and talk about how awful the weather is today, which may or may not also happen tomorrow on the radio.
emmabolden
2013 is the year of Awesome, A festival of photos, A teacher’s education, Alice B. Toklas (feline version), announcements, appearances, awesome, bad behavior in public places, books, classroom, creative writing, creative writing pedagogy, disagreeable/agreeable, education, edumacation, Embarrassing stories, Emma is very lucky, Epic, EPIC WIN, eyebrows, GenPop Books, Georgia, Georgia Southern, Gertrude Stein (feline version), Going to eleven, gratuitous photos of whatnot, instagram, Interviews, kidney stones, learning, Live-Tweeting, Malificae, medical curiosities, META, multi-tasking, Mustachio’d Kitties, My meowing roommates, NaPoMo, NaPoWriMo, Online culture, pedagogy, Perspiration? Inspiration?, Photo for the day, Photography, poem challenge, poem for the day, poems, poetry, Poetry Exercises, poets, Probably quite a bit TMI, relationships, shameless cat photos, shameless self-promotion, Squee!, teaching, teaching writing, The grind, The latest medical anomaly, the poem factory, The Witch Trials, Twitter, What Emma is up to, wonders and apparitions, writing community, writing life, writing teachers -
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] -
Are We Après The Avant?*
In which Emma takes a lot of cold medicine and gets deep with her thoughts.
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“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
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