My computer is currently happily downloading In Rainbows. We are at 38% and counting. Soon, we will be ready — to ROCK.
A special treat arrived in the mail yesterday — the issue of POOL with my poem, “Epistle II. Why I Will Why You Wouldn’t” sitting very happily on page 23. It’s a bang-up issue and I’m proud to be a part of it — there are two fantastic poems by my former teacher, Sharon Bryan, awesome poems by Denise Duhamel and Dean Young, a poem and an interview with Jane Miller, and a villanelle by Timothy Liu which should be required reading for everyone in America.
Also, there was my second complimentary rejection for the manuscript in a month. I’m hoping this is a good sign, that it means the last draft was nearly there, and maybe, just maybe, the draft that’s endured radical reconstructive poetry surgery IS there.
I’m getting ready for my reading at the Gnu’s Room in Auburn this Friday. I’ve already done two readings there and have determined to avoid repeats if at all possible. I’m thinking of reading some witch poems, though this is a scary thought. As is the scratch which seems to be taking over my throat.
And now, we are downloaded, unzipped, and ready to ROCK with RADIOHEAD. ZOMG.
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.
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