I have a notorious record of catching childhood ailments much later than I should, first established with my seventh grade bout with chicken pox. And thus it should’ve been no surprise that I awoke this morning — with pink eye. Pink eye. Seriously. Pink eye. Ah, well. Such are the breaks of a life in the classroom.
There was, thankfully, a very kind “enjoyed these” rejection slip in the mailbox, as well as a care package of Happy Fresh Cola Haribo from my dear Austrian friend. And I have an enormous stack of submissions ready to be assembled, folded, and stuck in their envelopes. Do not worry, literary magazine editors of America — I am using a great deal of hand sanitizer.
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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