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Joined March 2008
Twitter has meant so much to me through the years and brought so many amazing people into my life, but I just don’t think I can stay here. Find me at the 🔵☁️ place: emmabolden
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“At least I’ve managed, kept my weathers quiet in a nowhere only I have mapped where mind is both the shelter & the storm.” Excerpt from @Emmabo’s “Tornado Weather” from our Fall 2024 collection of Online Exclusives. Listen here: buff.ly/4h1yldd #poetrycommunity
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hi, i’ve got a poem about god and grief up on the Best American Poetry blog today, and I’m so grateful to Terence Winch for making it his pick of the week. blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/…
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also grateful to @DBrookshire, who challenged me to write a poem with the line “it hurts me more than it makes me angry” when i was in a deep dry spell
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very grateful to have a new poem up at @SublunaryReview
"Listen. I’m the graveside girl trying to pretty up a picture of my gone one’s forever, plucking the strings that tie together roses, carnations, pizzicato white, white." A poem by Emma Bolden sublunaryreview.com/home/an-…
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"What can I say but give yourself over to these poems, and if you’re very, very lucky, some of Emma Bolden’s genius may seep into you—and leave you, too, irrevocably changed.” —Maggie Smith on HOUSE IS AN ENIGMA #OnSaleNow #BlackFridaySale
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in case you were wondering on election night you are allowed and even encouraged to eat every pringle ever made
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oh no, oh no this is — oh this is not great
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Emma Bolden retweeted
you should be able to send steve kornacki sponsor gifts like in the hunger games
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too bad it is physically impossible for me to put down my phone
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HOW ARE WE DOING HOW IS IT GOING
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Emma Bolden retweeted
It’s his time
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y’all voter turnout is INSANE, i have never waited and we’ve been in line for thirty minutes with a lot of minutes to go
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You know shit is bad when the muppets have to lead us through breathing exercises
Stop scrolling, take a deep breath, and use the next few minutes to escape to a place where the air is sweet. 💛💚
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somehow my coffee mugs combined to describe this Election Day perfectly
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Somewhere they are tossing Steve Kornacki his final meal of Diet Coke and Nutter Butters before he is released from his lair
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Emma Bolden retweeted
not saying things are tense, but all the characters from Les Miserables are gradually gathering out side my window to sing a song
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Happy Steve Kornacki Eve to all who celebrate!
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