My nametag -- "coopun," incidentally, means "I have a fancy i.d. and am therefore an authority, and can tell you to go to bed."
This will almost certainly be my final post from Bowling Green, and from VAMPY, as today is the last day of camp. The last day, of course, means the best of VAMPY traditions: running through the fountain, the VAMPY banquet, the slide show, the last dance, and then, of course, trying to stay up until your parents pick you up at 9:30 the next morning. I always spent the ride home to Alabama sleeping in the backseat of my parents’ car, usually somehow getting gum in my hair, exhausted and exhilarated and sad and thrilled. This year, I have to admit that I’m happy to be able to go to bed at a reasonable hour. I also got to have lunch today with Dr. Julia Roberts, who is actually far cooler than the other Julia Roberts, and has done such amazing things for gifted education — it’s always an honor to be around her!
Also an honor: Publish Chicago printed a review of The Sad Epistles, along with an interview – thanks, guys!
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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