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proofing Church Ladies
This (thankfully long) weekend, I am looking at the proof of my third manuscript of poems, Church Ladies, which should be available for preorder in the next month! I published my first book in 2014, and my second in 2016, so it’s been a spell since I’ve released a full length book. If you’d like…
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NaPoWriMo
April is National Poetry Writing month, and I’m writing a poem a day to celebrate. I have a string of poems based on a movie I’d like to write on, and I’ve been interested in working through my Handbook of Poetic Forms to challenge myself to write form poems. To be honest, I’m not sure…
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dopplegangers
One thing I used to ponder when I was a kid planning to grow up and be a writer is what my writer name should be like. Should I go for gender-neutral, like “R.E. Emerson”? Publish under my maiden name? Mix it up and go under R. Elizabeth Emerson? Ultimately, and boringly, I decided to…