- It is my absolute pleasure to announce that The Sad Epistles is out and available from Dancing Girl Press! I got my copies last week, and the book is beautiful, if I do say so myself — Kristy Bowen, as always, has done a magnificent job putting it together! Dancing Girl is also offering a Spring Subscription Steal at the moment, which means that you can get all of their 2009 titles for a mere $100 — a worthy investment, indeed!
- In other book news, I’m beyond thrilled that my manuscript (the witch poems) was named as a semi-finalist in the Perugia Press Prize competition. I admire this press more than I can say, and it’s an honor. Plus, this gives me hope that — fingers crossed, knocking on wood, petting the hair of my Troll dolls — the manuscript will actually make its way to being a book some time soon.
- A few weeks ago, I read some poems from How to Recognize a Lady and The Mariner’s Wife at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900. I had the great honor of chairing my panel, which featured the wonderful poet Adam Prince (who read a poem about jellyfish which made me kind of love them, and I hate jellyfish ever since being stung by one in Gulf Shores when I was eleven), and B.R. Smith, fiction writer and associate editor of the Cincinnati Review. I have to admit that Mr. Smith did make my job as chair a little difficult, as I had to work very hard not to cry at the end of his story, which was incredibly beautiful and strange (in the way that great stories are strange) and sad. Do yourself a favor and check it out in the latest issue of Ninth Letter — you’ll be glad that you did. The fourth member of my panel, Carol Rainey, wasn’t able to attend, but I had the pleasure of reading her essay about William Stafford, which beautifully describes his pedagogy and his personality.
- We are currently under a Winter Weather Advisory. Again. After it was so warm that I wore a t-shirt outside with no problem. Clearly, Kentucky hates us all.
- Though it never made it to the main page of I Can Has Cheezburger, I feel it is necessary to share with you The Best LOL Cat EVER. I think it never made it to the main page because LOLing would be over after this. After this, no other LOL can ever be as LOLful. View at your own risk.
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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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March 13, 2009 at 1:12 pm
mariegauthier
Happy Friday the 13th to you! DGP doesn’t have your chap listed for sale yet, but I’ll stalk them until they do–CONGRATULATIONS, all wonderful hooray news!
And that LOLcat is the LOLiest cat EVER.
March 16, 2009 at 7:43 pm
Jessie Carty
Congrats on so much good news!!
I’ve been meaning to do one of the subscriptions with Dancing Girl and perhaps after vacation I now have a really good reason to do that