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I simply cannot NOT post this, found on Choriamb’s page via Ross White’s:
Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. And when we study The Wasteland in my World Lit class in a few weeks, you can bet that this will make an appearance.
In other news: I think I’d mentioned on the blog that I was wondering very seriously if I should abandon my first manuscript. Whether I did or not, I was wondering very seriously if I should abandon my first manuscript. I had nearly come to the conclusion that it was a Hopeless Matter. And then! And then! A handwritten letter, that wonder of wonders, from a press, saying that they loved it and wanted me to resubmit. Hooray!
Signs are everywhere, I guess. One just has to look for them. Or hope for them. Or ask for them.
Shantih, shantih, shantih.
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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