Sometimes I wonder if the most important thing to learn about being a writer is to respond on a daily basis to abject despair with hope.
One should replace “writer” with “human being,” probably.
365: A Day In The Life (In An Image)
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Emma Bolden is the author of How To Recognize A Lady, a chapbook of poems published as part of Edge by Edge, the third in Toadlily Press' Quartet Series, and The Mariner's Wife, a chapbook published by Finishing Line Press. Her third chapbook, The Sad Epistles, is forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press. She was the recipient of a Tennessee Williams Scholarship to the Sewanee Writers' Conference and was named a Finalist for a Ruth Lilly Fellowship by the Poetry Foundation/Poetry magazine. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in such journals as Prairie Schooner, the Indiana Review, Feminist Studies, The Journal, Redivider, The Greensboro Review, and Verse. Her manuscript was a semi-finalist for the Perugia Press Prize. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Georgetown College, where she also serves as the poetry editor of the Georgetown Review.
Questions? Comments? Rants? Raves? Contact me at emmabolden@gmail.com.
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September 19, 2007 at 9:47 pm
whitreed
i prefer drinking heavily
September 19, 2007 at 9:59 pm
emmabolden
Well, as Emily Dickinson should’ve said, Hope is a Thing in a Bottle.
September 21, 2007 at 12:36 pm
Art
This one hit me hard. I am working with a group at my church to learn more about the teachings of social justice in the Catholic church. And to more than learn about them–to have the courage to act on them. Thanks for the reminder to be brave.
September 25, 2007 at 12:06 am
Ross
Human being, yes. Writers… well, Whitney said it all.
September 26, 2007 at 11:33 pm
emmabolden
Hi Art! Good to hear from you!
Are you working at St. Michael’s?
September 26, 2007 at 11:33 pm
emmabolden
Ross — exactamundo.