https://emmabolden.com/contact-information/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/emma-bolden-headshot-2019.jpgEmma Bolden Headshot 2019https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/emma_bolden_headshot_2018_100_dpi.jpgEmma_Bolden_Headshot_2018_100_DPIPhoto by Jennifer Alsabrook-Turner of BANG Imageshttps://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/rogueone.pngrogueonehttps://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/19143738_10155503395664090_1551277162996225353_o.jpg19143738_10155503395664090_1551277162996225353_ohttps://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/10402662_10153481273744090_4947120970142150377_n.jpg10402662_10153481273744090_4947120970142150377_n2025-08-26T18:28:59+00:00weekly0.6https://emmabolden.com/published-work/2025-04-14T18:31:53+00:00weekly0.6https://emmabolden.com/125001-2/2025-04-14T18:30:44+00:00weekly0.6https://emmabolden.com/2015/09/16/an-open-letter-from-one-of-the-other-74-poets-in-best-american-poetry/2025-01-13T15:52:04+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/news-and-events/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/jackleg_spring_poetry_series.jpegjackleg_spring_poetry_series2024-07-03T20:18:28+00:00weekly0.6https://emmabolden.com/books/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/meditations.jpgMeditationshttps://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/forthcoming.jpgforthcominghttps://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/slide12.jpgSlide12024-07-03T20:05:56+00:00weekly0.6https://emmabolden.com/social_links/2023-07-20T17:49:21+00:00weekly0.6https://emmabolden.com/media/2024-11-12T18:31:59+00:00weekly0.6https://emmabolden.com/2019/08/05/plenary-absolution-in-the-adroit-journal/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/adroit-issue-29.jpeg.pngAdroit Issue 29.jpeg2019-08-05T22:26:34+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2019/07/24/interview-about-house-is-an-enigma-in-full-stop/2019-07-22T23:12:30+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2019/07/22/house-is-an-enigma-reviewed-in-salamander-magazine/2019-07-22T22:47:01+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2019/03/01/come-see-me-in-raleigh-durham/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/img_3016.jpgIMG_30162019-03-01T19:23:58+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2018/12/19/three-poems-for-you-to-visit/2019-01-09T09:21:05+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2018/12/12/mr-sulu-warp-speed-ive-got-a-poem-in-glass/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/img_2161-e1544565061161.pngIMG_2161Hi this is a screen grab from Tori Amos' performance of "In the Springtime of His Voodoo" on MTV Unplugged in 1996 and by this it should be obvious that this performance is AWESOME and you should watch it NOW2018-12-11T21:55:10+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2018/12/11/see-me-at-disco-birmingham-on-december-13th/2018-12-11T00:18:20+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2018/12/04/incendiary-devices-in-the-iron-horse-literary-review/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/screen-shot-2018-12-01-at-6-21-39-pm.pngScreen Shot 2018-12-01 at 6.21.39 PM2018-12-02T00:25:55+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2018/12/02/see-me-in-greensboro/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/img_2170.jpgIMG_21702018-12-02T00:18:24+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2018/10/31/house-is-an-enigma-mini-book-tour/2018-10-31T00:21:13+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2018/10/23/hear-me-on-wbhm/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/wbhm-pic.jpgWBHM Pic2018-10-23T00:35:08+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2018/10/02/house-is-an-enigma-is-now-available/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/house-poem-jpeg.jpgHouse Poem JPEG2018-10-02T00:57:13+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2018/06/14/i-was-told-not-to-write-about-the-body-about-the-poem/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/29884447682_92e543cce3_h.jpg29884447682_92e543cce3_h2021-10-17T00:28:58+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2018/06/12/house-is-an-enigma-featured-on-sundress-publications-the-wardobe/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/house-for-twitter-front-only.jpgHOUSE FOR TWITTER FRONT ONLY2018-06-12T16:02:23+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2017/12/15/memphis-this-weekend-me-you-maybe/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/img_1532.jpgIMG_15322018-01-09T08:31:53+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2017/12/11/house-is-an-enigma-has-found-a-home/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/img_1448-1.jpgGertrude Stein and her houseThis is a photograph of Gertrude Stein (feline) standing on top of her own house (I know, it's a giant dog crate, but she loves the space and also somehow crate-trained herself, which is the only way any cat of mine has ever been trained). May we all similarly triumph and lord over our own houses. Amen.2017-12-11T18:44:27+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2012/12/14/how-to-make-a-mason-jar-snow-globe-an-obsessively-step-by-step-guide-to-obsessive-crafting/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/imgp7727.jpgIMGP7727Once you give the figurines time to dry, it's time to take another look at the directions for making a snow globe and notice that they call for distiled or boiled water. Realize that you are too cheap to buy water because it is water, and you're also too lazy to change out of your owl pajamas and go to a store to purchase said water. Boil the water instead. Just don't watch it. See how this water isn't boiling? That's because I'm watching it. So don't.https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/imgp7723.jpgIMGP7723At this point, you're totally impatient and really want to get this snow globe assembled. Tell your horses to hold their festive selves -- you are about to put these things in water and if you don't let the glue dry, it's going to be a bad scene. Let the jar lids dry overnight. You can take this time to make other holiday crafts, like yarn-covered-styrofoam-form-Christmas trees or voodoo dolls of all of the relatives who will soon ask you embarrassing and relentless questions about why you're not married.https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/imgp7721.jpgIMGP7721Now that you've created your festive scene and made sure that the Mason jar can handle all that festivity, glue the figurines to the jar lid using the superglue you accidentally left out of the photograph you took of necessary supplies.https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/imgp7718.jpgIMGP7718Arrange your festive stuff on the Mason jar's lid. This is important so that you can make sure your festive stuff will actually fit inside of the Mason jar. It's also important to make sure your festive stuff is festive enough. Here, I've created a scene in which the deer is frolicking in a bottle brush tree forest. Frolicking? Definitely festive. Other suggestions for festive snow globe items include snowmen, non-terrifying Santa Claus figurines (if you can find one), tiny recreations of Dickensian town squares, velociraptors covered in Christmas lights, velociraptors covered in Christmas lights attacking tiny recreations of Dickensian town squares, and tiny replicas of your enemies wearing only their undergarments so that they'll be forever trapped in a freezing, watery, festive globe of terror. https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/imgp7715.jpgIMGP7715The most important supplies, really, are the festive things that go inside the snow globe, because that's what makes the snow globe festive and festivity? It's important. Here, I've gathered a bunch of little trees which are apparently called "bottle-brush trees." That's your craft fact for the day. You're welcome. I read somewhere on the Internets that these can discolor the snow globe water, so I sprayed them with acrylic top-coat sealer. I'm not sure if that's actually going to be effective, but it made me feel useful and pro-active and really, let's be honest, it's the holidays, and anything that makes you feel useful and pro-active is important.https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/imgp7714.jpgIMGP7714First, you'll need to gather supplies. It will probably take you four trips to Hobby Lobby to gather all of said supplies because you keep forgetting what you need once you get in the store because there's so much glitter there it's mind-blowing, and you also keep forgetting to make a list of what you need before you go to the store and see the mind-blowing array of glitters. Said supplies include: Mason jars, glycerin (which is completely impossible to find, so it'll take you about a week of going to every drug store possible looking for it until you find it in the pharmacy across the freaking street from where you live, for Chrissakes, next to the hand lotion and Tincture of Merthiolate because apparently that makes sense), glitter, and festive stuff to go inside the Mason jars.https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/imgp7749.jpgIMGP7749https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/imgp7747.jpgIMGP7747Screw on the Mason jar's outer lid and wipe away any excess sealant with a picture of a monkey because you forgot to bring in paper towels and you are the kind of person who has a picture of a monkey just lying around.https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/imgp7746.jpgIMGP7746Put the lid upside down on top of the Mason jar. This will probably be about the time you remember that you bought some sealant from Lowe's like a year ago because your duplex is, let's be honest, a little tragic and the sink didn't want to stay in the hole where the sink was supposed to stay. You'll think to yourself, well, better not let all that sealant go to waste, but you'll also panic before you use it and Google eleventy combinations of sealant + superglue to make sure you're not going to make your duplex explode because even though it is slightly tragic, it's still full of you and your pets and things.https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/imgp7743.jpgIMGP7743Put some superglue around the edges of the Mason jar. If you spill some, you might think it's a good idea to touch it with your bare fingers. It isn't.2017-10-26T14:47:17+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2017/10/11/catch-me-in-charleston-this-weekend-1013-1014/2017-10-11T00:19:52+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2017/09/24/the-missing-girls-got-a-mouth-on-her/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/33080577092_d5752f0a7d_k.jpg33080577092_d5752f0a7d_k2017-09-25T01:06:28+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2017/09/04/two-interviews/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/img_0726.jpgIMG_0726https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/img_0728.jpgIMG_0728This is a photograph from the 1965 World Encyclopedia yearbook, in case you were wondering where my obsession with the Cold War started.2017-09-04T23:42:12+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2017/07/03/three-poemswhat-ive-been-up-to/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/img_0071.jpgIMG_00712017-07-06T12:12:28+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2017/06/06/two-poems-in-foundry/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/6566394807_6905bda8bc_z.jpg6566394807_6905bda8bc_zI know, this totally spooked me up, too, but it's the kind of image I was thinking about when I describe doll hair.2017-06-06T19:20:37+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2017/06/04/a-flock-of-poems-plus-a-word-about-witch-trials/2019-01-09T15:54:41+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2017/02/26/three-poems/2017-09-03T23:57:19+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2017/01/24/three-poems-in-triquarterly/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/28245041004_3852eb7130_z.jpg28245041004_3852eb7130_z2017-01-24T20:49:13+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2016/12/31/creative-writing-fellowship/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/24155002595_7be8cc2ff3_k.jpg24155002595_7be8cc2ff3_k2017-01-01T00:56:54+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/blog/2016-12-12T01:23:18+00:00weekly0.6https://emmabolden.com/2016/12/06/new-poem-in-waccamaw/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/fullsizerender4.jpgfullsizerender4This is a totally metal x-ray of the metal screw in my mouth. \m/(>.<)\m/2016-12-06T00:26:25+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2016/11/30/essay-news-and-two-thank-yous/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/19856479070_8253641a27_z.jpg19856479070_8253641a27_z2016-11-30T20:16:13+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2016/11/18/coyote-poem-howling-in-amethyst-arsenic/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/6407995641_b3a738b1e8_z.jpg6407995641_b3a738b1e8_z2016-11-18T18:29:49+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2016/10/29/an-essay-and-two-poems/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/6578546205_e7ccbd5fb5_o.jpgDSCN50482016-10-29T22:30:33+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2016/10/15/short-short-saturday/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/24128976546_34848ccfed_k.jpg24128976546_34848ccfed_khttps://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/21757029912_5115f74053_z.jpg21757029912_5115f74053_z2016-10-15T22:32:18+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2016/10/13/floating-with-the-sinking-city/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/20419745696_b7e4fdb7be_o.jpg20419745696_b7e4fdb7be_ohttps://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/14529956675_8f5d6bccdc_k.jpg14529956675_8f5d6bccdc_khttps://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/8177267992_8c29e20bbf_o.jpgDSCN73302016-10-13T00:09:26+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2016/10/10/give-yourself-room-to-wait-and-other-stories/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/26058722980_ce7b14497b_z.jpg26058722980_ce7b14497b_zA different waiting room, but very much the same feeling.2016-10-11T04:12:24+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2016/09/30/distance-driving-and-mixing-metaphors/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/28657275651_efb659160b_z.jpg28657275651_efb659160b_z2016-09-30T04:28:17+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2016/09/17/nobody-wins-all-the-time/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/img_6640.jpgimg_6640https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/fullsizerender1.jpgfullsizerender1The trolling in question.2016-09-18T03:56:17+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2016/09/08/mid-south-book-festival-this-weekend/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/impossible-language.pngimpossible-language2016-09-08T16:21:55+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2016/07/22/here-are-some-announcements-and-also-photographs-of-cats/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/img_6035.jpgIMG_6035https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/img_6208.jpgIMG_6208https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/fullsizerender.jpgFullSizeRenderhttps://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/img_5715.jpgIMG_57152016-07-22T23:47:33+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2013/02/13/when-life-throws-lemons-at-your-face-smash-those-bastards-up-and-make-a-cocktail/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/photo.jpgphotoThis is an after photograph. Some of my fat quarters are now out of place. This makes me nervous.https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/img_0089.jpgIMG_0089This is a photograph of the massive mess I made in my home office.https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/img_1233.jpgIMG_1233This is a photograph of actual lemons I actually made to make actual lemonade, FOR CONTEXT.https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/img_0092.jpgIMG_0092This is a photograph of Gertrude Stein in the middle of freaking LOVING the massive mess in my home office, which is probably the first symptom of super-angry cat rabies.https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/stipping.jpegstippingNo, seriously. THIS BOOK EXISTS. And you can BUY IT. NOTE: there are still two days until Valentine's Day. YOU'RE WELCOME.2016-07-16T01:08:32+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2013/02/16/the-witches-are-flying-your-way/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/563093_500350996678357_1893259525_n.jpg563093_500350996678357_1893259525_nPEOPLE THIS IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING.2016-07-16T01:08:23+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2013/03/03/sometimes-things-are-exciting/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/emmareadingglasses.jpegEmmareadingglassesThis is a photograph of me reading. I'm taking off my reading glasses but it looks like I'm doing something dramatic and meaningful. In fact, forget the part about the reading glasses. This is a picture of me doing something dramatic and meaningful.https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/img_1256.jpgIMG_1256This is a photograph of Kate Greenstreet's Young Tambling. It's been Instagrammed because its unfiltered awesomeness would make the Interwebs EXPLODE, and then where would Al Gore, astronaut sloths, and fruit-hatted cats be?2016-07-16T01:08:06+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2013/03/06/rejection-winter-storm-saturn-and-awp-boston/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/img_7539.jpgIMG_7539I call this "It's Still Rejection Even If You Try To Hide It, Cart Outside The Rite Aid."https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/img_5656.jpgIMG_5656I call this "Rejection at the Kiwanis Ogeechee Fairgrounds Ring of Fire"https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/img_8489.jpgIMG_8489I call this "Rejection with No Further Comment Needed."https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/img_6807.jpgIMG_6807I call this "Rejection Outside of the Newton Building."https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/img_7938.jpgIMG_7938I call this "Rejection: Santa Claus by the Jarred Popcorn, Statesboro Walmart."2016-07-16T01:08:00+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2013/03/06/winter-storm-saturn-barbaric-awp-rejection-one/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/20130306-133324.jpg20130306-133324.jpg2016-07-16T01:07:54+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2013/03/07/winter-storm-saturn-barbaric-awp-rejections-two-and-three/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/20130306-222458.jpg20130306-222458.jpghttps://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/20130306-222114.jpg20130306-222114.jpg2016-07-16T01:07:48+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2013/03/07/winter-storm-saturn-barbaric-awp-rejections-two-and-three-2/2016-07-16T01:07:43+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2013/03/08/winter-death-blizzard-storm-saturn-awp-boston-rejections-four-five-six-and-seven/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/20130307-234144.jpg20130307-234144.jpghttps://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/20130307-233939.jpg20130307-233939.jpghttps://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/20130307-233750.jpg20130307-233750.jpghttps://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/20130307-233537.jpg20130307-233537.jpg2016-07-16T01:07:39+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2013/03/09/winter-death-blizzard-saturn-storm-awp-rejection-eight-i-think-numbers-are-hard/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/20130309-180754.jpg20130309-180754.jpg2016-07-16T01:07:33+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2013/03/10/winter-death-blizzard-melting-saturn-snow-awp-rejections/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/20130310-082203.jpg20130310-082203.jpghttps://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/20130310-081913.jpg20130310-081913.jpghttps://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/20130310-081606.jpg20130310-081606.jpghttps://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/20130310-081345.jpg20130310-081345.jpg2016-07-16T01:07:29+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2013/03/11/melting-winter-death-blizzard-saturn-storm-awp-rejections-the-final-countdown/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/phone.jpegphoneI call this "Rejection Of Common Sense Outside The Hynes Convention Center Ballroom."https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/scarf.jpegscarf2016-07-16T01:07:24+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2013/03/18/awp-traditions/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/slide1.jpgSlide1This is the map of AWP I made while I was waiting for a panel. I accidentally skipped a letter because apparently being a writer and working with the alphabet every day doesn't guarantee that you actually know the alphabet, at least not in order.2016-07-16T01:07:06+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2013/03/19/things-2020-has-made-me-fear/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/slide11.jpgSlide1This is the most accurate depiction of John Stossel's view of the world that I could imagine.2016-07-16T01:06:59+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2013/03/21/dear-mr-coffee/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/20130320-202106.jpg20130320-202106.jpghttps://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/20130320-201929.jpg20130320-201929.jpg2016-07-16T01:06:50+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2013/03/24/are-we-apres-the-avant/2016-07-16T01:06:36+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2013/03/31/theres-gonna-be-some-changes-around-here/2016-07-16T01:06:25+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2013/04/04/are-there-things-that-are-important-beyond-all-this-fiddle-or-napowrimo-and-you/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/img_2272.jpgIMG_2272This is how I know my writing's going well.https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/img_2220.jpgIMG_2220NaPoWriMo FTW!2016-07-16T01:06:10+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2013/04/14/the-story-behind-the-damage/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/cherub.jpegDSCN3512Here's a picture of the beheaded cherub. I miss it, still.2016-07-16T01:06:05+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2013/04/19/a-reading-and-a-dinosaur/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/mosasaurpaint.pngMosasaurpainthttps://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/mosasaur-dinosaurs-28881734-500-404.jpgMosasaur-dinosaurs-28881734-500-404Meh.2016-07-16T01:05:59+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2013/04/05/and-on-the-radio-you-hear-november-rain-that-solos-awful-long-but-its-got-a-good-refrain/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/20130404-202609.jpg20130404-202609.jpghttps://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/20130404-202556.jpg20130404-202556.jpgIf there's one thing I'm very good at, it's losing my reading glasses. I had a gorgeous green pair that I left somewhere in the Charlotte airport, or possibly on an airplane. Or somehow in the sky. I still miss them. I was thrilled when I came into my classroom today and found that my glasses were still where I apparently left them on Tuesday.https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/20130404-202543.jpg20130404-202543.jpghttps://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/20130404-202524.jpg20130404-202524.jpg2016-07-16T01:05:54+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2013/05/05/its-that-time-again-folks/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/slide1.jpgSlide12016-07-16T01:05:52+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2013/04/07/radio-free-gertrude/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/alice.jpegaliceThis is what I suppose Alice B. Toklas was doing when I was talking, when she wasn't creeping out the neighbors or eating a table or something.https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/img_2455.jpgIMG_2455Gertrude Stein decided to help me with the poem I needed to read.https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/img_2447.jpgIMG_2447Here's my call-in radio show call-in station. Please note my fourth cup of coffee. Please also note that telephone. Children, that's called a "land line." It's an ancient artifact from the days in which people didn't need everything to be confusing and realized it was totally gross to have your phone with you in the restroom.https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/img_2453.jpgIMG_2453Gertrude and I. Sigh.2016-07-16T01:05:43+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2013/05/09/the-accidental-professor/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/8717759665_c176f831b2_o.jpg8717759665_c176f831b2_oMono no aware in action. Or, well, lack of action.https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/img_7215.jpgIMG_7215This is a gratuitous photograph of a beach inserted to give my blog entry more visual interest.2016-07-16T01:05:42+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2013/06/03/houses-are-jerks/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/8427902879_fe5e3e635c_o.jpg8427902879_fe5e3e635c_oGertrude Stein appears not to have the same anxieties about houses, possibly because she'd just be embarrassed by me.https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/5878965521_ff6c550e69_b.jpgDSCN3604See? See what I mean here? This house? Totally a secret-blabbing jerk.2016-07-16T01:05:36+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2013/04/13/home-where-my-love-lies-waiting-silently-for-me/2016-07-16T01:05:34+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2013/06/14/the-photobiography-of-alice-b-toklas/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/img_4057.jpgIMG_4057Meanwhile, Gertrude Stein rolled around on the carpet in a fury of smouldering rage.https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/img_4048.jpgIMG_4048And then she fell asleep, sitting up, pushing my arms away, snoring, and singing.https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/img_4052.jpgIMG_4052A sleepy, sleepy problem.https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/img_4051.jpgIMG_4051However, she soon ran into a problem.https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/img_4045.jpgIMG_4045This is a story about Alice B. Toklas, and this story about Alice B. Toklas begins when Alice B. Toklas decided that she was tired of me petting her because I always, somehow, am doing it wrong. She pushed my arm away to let me know just how wrongly I was doing it.2016-07-16T01:05:30+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2013/06/25/there-is-no-frigate-like-book/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/gertbook.jpegGertBookNOTE: Gertrude Stein does not necessarily share my enthusiasm for all things bookish.2017-01-17T06:46:22+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2013/06/26/2366/2016-07-16T01:05:19+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2013/06/30/summer-reading-list-2/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/mail-google-com.jpgmail.google.comThis is an entry about my Summer Reading List, which is part of my effort to stop having these strange little camps of books wandering all around my apartment.https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/papo_ptero.jpgpapo_pteroThis is not an actual kookaburra. Should it be? I'll leave that to you to decide.https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/170px-blue-winged_kookaburra_arp.jpg170px-Blue-winged_kookaburra_arpThis is an actual kookaburra.2016-07-16T01:05:14+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2013/07/08/shedding-light-on-the-book-of-shadows/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/malleus-maleficarum.jpgmalleus-maleficarumThis is the cover of the Malleus Maleficarum, or The Hammer of Witches, which lays down the system of beliefs that led to the European witch trials. It's chilling beyond chilling. Wicasta and Christie Jury transcribed the text and posted it online to further education on the text and the trials. It's a very, very difficult thing to read, but it's very, very much more important to build knowledge and make sure nothing like this happens, in any form, again.2016-07-16T01:05:09+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2013/07/14/everything-i-need-to-know-i-learned-from-alice-b-toklas/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/photo1.jpgphoto(1)This is the ball and the corner in question. I'm posting a photograph of it mostly to remind myself, in the future, of what kind of ball Alice B. Toklas likes for when Alice B. Toklas eats it or gives it to the cicadas or something and I have to buy more of them.https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/img_2533.jpgIMG_2533This is a photograph of the feline Alice B. Toklas, who is the hero of today's story.2016-07-16T01:04:59+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2013/07/23/hobby-lobby-an-essay/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/20130723-162747.jpg20130723-162747.jpg2016-07-16T01:04:53+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2013/07/31/back-in-black-i-hit-the-sack-i-been-too-long-im-glad-to-be-back/2016-07-16T01:04:45+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2013/10/12/whats-really-horrible-about-american-horror-story/2016-07-16T01:04:44+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2013/08/01/dont-be-fooled-by-the-rocks-that-i-got/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/img_4710.jpgIMG_4710This is a photo of Alice B. Toklas sleeping, which, besides chewing on logs and scratching down the very walls of houses, is pretty much all that she does.https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/img_45851.jpgIMG_4585This is a picture of Gertrude Stein doing ... this.2016-07-16T01:04:42+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2013/11/01/american-horror-story-is-kind-of-horrible-episode-four/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/yodalice.jpegyodaliceNOT HAPPY SHE IS.2016-07-16T01:04:40+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2013/08/06/home-is-so-sad/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/8632466363_27d9e7872e.jpg8632466363_27d9e7872eThis isn't my mailman, but it is the post office. So.https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/photo.jpgphotoThis is how things are going with my new mailman so far. Sigh.2016-07-16T01:04:36+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2013/11/07/events-on-the-horizon/2016-07-16T01:04:35+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2013/12/13/as-through-these-gates-we-travel-and-though-our-ways-must-part/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/20131213-140449.jpg20131213-140449.jpghttps://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/20131213-135855.jpg20131213-135855.jpghttps://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/20131213-135329.jpg20131213-135329.jpg2016-07-16T01:04:32+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2013/08/12/crafting-for-spinsters-and-their-cats-the-tea-tin-cactus-planter/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/uo.jpeguoDon't be fooled: this isn't a photograph of any of my dorm rooms from the 1990s. You can tell by the absence of Tori Amos posters and multiple copies of Sylvia Plath's Ariel.https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/jasmintea.jpegjasminteaOh, that's right. Links. This is from this.https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/img_5605.jpgIMG_5605Look at this. Isn’t it cute? It’s a cactus with a brighter, trendier cactus grafted on the top (according to Urban Outfitters, neon is, like, so hot right now) (for lame hipsters). And it turns out that now, cacti come in these little plastic pots with handles on them, like tiny and fashionable safety accessories. You should probably try to figure that out before you gingerly pick it up from the bottom and everyone at Wal-Mart is like, What is wrong with you? (Not that you bought this cactus at Wal-Mart, because that would be lame.)https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/img_5604.jpgIMG_5604If you look at the bottom of the tea tin, you’ll see your distorted self staring hauntingly back at you as if it doesn’t know you at all, which is a really good metaphor for the end of a relationship, when you think about it. So you should think about it. But not too long, unless you have an occasional wine cooler on hand.https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/img_5614.jpgIMG_5614This last step may be the most important. Remember, social media was invented so that you can show other people that you’re better than them, or at least that you’re stable enough to do crafts, even if you’ve worn your pajamas with a chunky bracelet and a fashionable belt for three months straight. Therefore, it is essential to photograph your craft and show it to as many people on the Internet as possible. Otherwise, what’s the point? Oh, that’s right. NONE. There is NO POINT. Find the one surface in your house that doesn’t look like it’s part of a still from Grey Gardens and set your craft up there. You’ll need to arrange a little vignette by placing other objects near the craft. Make sure that they’re kind of vintage-y and used in witty and unexpected ways, like this milk glass hand-me-down filled with colored pencils, or a Mason jar sippy-cup filled with wine coolers.https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/img_5610.jpgIMG_5610Now it’s time to panic a little that the cactus won’t actually fit inside of the tea tin. After that, it’s time to think about how you really should have thought of that before. Then, it’s time to decide that you are going to make the cactus fit into the tea tin, no matter what, which means it’s time to panic a little about how you are going to get the cactus inside of the tea tin without lacerating your hands so badly that you look like one of the illustrations of lepers that seemed to be on every page of your catechism book when you went to Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic School. So you are going to need gloves, and those gloves need to be cute, which is the most important part of this step. That may seem deceptively unimportant, but, I can assure you, that is pure deception. You need to get some cute gardening gloves because there is nothing more important, in any situation, than accessories. Coco Chanel once said that "It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure," but I like to think about accessories a little more concretely. Accessories are absolutely necessary, because, if paired with a chunky bracelet and a fashionable belt, no one will be able to tell that you’re wearing your pajamas. Coco Chanel said that, too. https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/img_5609.jpgIMG_5609It’s important that your tea tin provide proper drainage for all of the times that you forget that you watered your cactus, like, two hours ago and water it again, so that your cactus doesn’t rot from the inside and then just sort of sadly collapse, like your dream of being a weather girl. Take a rusty screw you have lying around and a hammer and use them to poke holes in the bottom of the tea tin.* You can use the tea tin’s lid as a dish to catch any excess water, and you should feel extremely proud of this moment of efficiency. *Actually you probably shouldn’t do this at all, because this might actually be dangerous. But, then again, if you’ve had a tetanus shot recently, you don’t want to waste it, right? https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/img_5607.jpgIMG_5607First, take the Jasmine tea tin you luckily haven’t thrown out since your ex-boyfriend brought it over to your apartment years ago because he apparently thought you were that kind of people. Which was really nice, you know, so you were like, Awww, thank you, even though secretly you were like, What the hell? All I drink is Diet Coke, Folger’s Simply Smooth, and the occasional wine cooler. IT’S AS IF YOU DON’T KNOW ME AT ALL.https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/img_5606.jpgIMG_5606Here are the supplies you will need for this craft project. It is very important to wear knock-off Crocs because they imply that you are very, very serious about getting sh*t DONE, so serious that you are not planning to leave the house until said sh*t is DONE, thus the shoes you can’t leave your house in. That way, if anyone comes by and is like, Hey, Emma, why haven’t you left the house in the past seven years or whatever? Then you can be like, Hey, Judgey McJudgerson, I’ve been up in here getting sh*t DONE, and you know how you can tell? I’m wearing getting sh*t DONE shoes. Peace.2016-07-16T01:04:32+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2013/12/18/topping-the-top-ten-part-one/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/photo-4.jpgphoto 4https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/photo-3.jpgphoto 3WHAT ARE YOU THINKING ILLUSTRATOR AND PUBLISHER? How is this appropriate for anyone, much less a child?https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/photo-2.jpgphoto 2This very terrifying illustration of very sad children is the best possible preface for this list.2016-07-16T01:04:28+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2013/08/16/tonight-atlanta-kavarna-true-story-boom/2016-07-16T01:04:26+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2013/12/24/topping-the-top-ten-part-2/2022-06-07T01:46:30+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2013/08/28/why-we-shouldnt-stop-talking-about-miley-cyrus/2016-07-16T01:04:22+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2013/12/25/topping-the-top-ten-part-3-merry-edition/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/slide1.jpgSlide12016-07-16T01:04:22+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2013/09/17/dirge-with-grunge-music/2016-07-16T01:04:19+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2014/01/01/old-outta-here-new-come-on-in/2016-07-16T01:04:17+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2013/10/01/revisionings/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/photo.jpgphotoHere are some of those notes I was talking about in all of their cryptic glory.2016-07-16T01:04:13+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2014/02/15/how-to-fall-drunk-in-love-with-yourself/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/img_0153.jpgIMG_0153DON'T be ashamed of that fact that you DO put on pajamas as soon as you come home.https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/img_0164.jpgIMG_0164https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/img_0163.jpgIMG_0163https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/img_0158.jpgIMG_0158DO spring for the fanciest Prosecco on sale at the Bi-Lo https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/img_0156.jpgIMG_0156https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/img_0157.jpgIMG_0157https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/img_0155.jpgIMG_0155https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/img_0154.jpgIMG_0154https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/img_0144.jpgIMG_0144DON'T stop with the https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/img_0143.jpgIMG_0143DO practice your Beyoncé face in the car. This is very important. DON'T worry that your Beyoncé face isn't awesome enough because the whole point of the Beyoncé face is that EVERY 2016-07-16T01:04:13+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2014/07/22/my-stop-on-the-writing-process-blog-tour-or-checking-in-on-checking-out/2016-07-16T01:04:10+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2014/08/14/fire-up-your-loud-blog-tour-style/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/drunkemma.jpegDrunkEmmaEMMA THOMPSON TURNS DOWN FOR NO WHAThttps://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/chantel.jpegChantel2016-07-16T01:04:07+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2014/09/16/geography-v-now-available-for-pre-order/2016-07-16T01:04:04+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2014/11/03/farewell-my-lovely-remembering-diann-blakely/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/photo-2.jpgphoto-2A photograph of Diann and I, posed so as to appear in deep conversation, from 1998.https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/photo-1.jpgphoto-1A classic example of one of Diann’s comments, this on a poem of mine from 1997: “Your best piece! I love this! (Most adolescent death-wish poems seem self-regarding, even coy, in the Plathian sense, but this is terrific, convincing and utterly unsentimental)”2016-07-16T01:04:01+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2014/11/27/things-for-which-i-am-grateful-presented-in-no-particular-order/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/thanks.jpegThanks2016-07-16T01:03:58+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2014/12/02/advent-calendar-activism/2016-07-16T01:03:55+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2014/12/04/keeping-things-whole/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/photo-2.jpgphoto 2I still love this book as much as I did when I was an Emily not an Emma.https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/photo-1.jpgIn a field I am the absence of field.2016-07-16T01:03:51+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2014/12/22/because-of-the-house-we-have-built-for-our-language/2016-07-16T01:03:48+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2014/12/26/you-are-not-alone-even-if-you-are-spending-christmas-alone-with-your-cats/2016-07-16T01:03:45+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2015/02/10/the-best-feeling/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/8685024606_b3a0d27de1_o.jpg8685024606_b3a0d27de1_oThe House in question.2016-07-16T01:03:42+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2015/02/14/ladies-celebrating-ladies/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/slide13.jpgSlide1https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/slide12.jpgSlide1https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/slide11.jpgSlide1https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/slide1.jpgSlide12016-07-16T01:03:37+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2015/04/16/we-should-hang-out/2016-07-16T01:03:33+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2015/05/12/it-was-marvelous-to-speak/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/city-color.jpegCity Color2016-07-16T01:03:30+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2015/06/13/want-a-signed-copy-of-geography-v/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/img_9826.jpgIMG_9826DELUXEhttps://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/img_9301.jpgIMG_9301DELUXE2016-07-16T01:03:26+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2015/07/19/pour-away-the-ocean-and-sweep-up-the-wood/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/img_6439.jpgIMG_6439https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/img_9957.jpgIMG_99572024-05-21T09:51:13+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2015/08/13/the-toast-the-coast-and-some-thoughts-about-pigeons/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/coinstar.jpegCOINSTARYES, THIS IS AN ELEGANTLY DRESSED WOMAN WITH ELEGANTLY FLOWING LOCKS USING A COINSTAR IN A MOMENT THAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED TODAY AND FOR REAL.2016-07-16T01:03:17+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2015/08/20/this-poem-would-love-it-if-youd-pay-it-a-visit/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/5501588774_bcdff7c504_z.jpgDSCN2560A flower of the same type if not the same color, exactly, as the thousand purples I use in the poem.2016-07-16T01:03:14+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2015/09/22/people-of-the-news-york-and-jersey/2016-07-16T01:03:07+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2015/10/02/clementines-delicious-fruit-delicious-literature/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/8929773932_982e96897b_z.jpg8929773932_982e96897b_z(Confession: I'm obsessed with hospital socks)2016-07-16T01:03:02+00:00monthlyhttps://emmabolden.com/2015/10/14/mermaids-jell-o-homecoming-queens-the-memphis-blues-and-cats/https://emmabolden.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/hot-sundae-saved-by-bell.jpghot-sundae-saved-by-bellThe Hot Sundaes. 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