@emmagstephens.bsky.social
Poet. Professor. Appalachian. Southern. Anglican. Poems in The Windhover, Ekstasis Mag, Thimble Lit Mag, Door is a Jar, Red Branch Review, Clayjar Review, The Christian Century and more--with work upcoming in The MacGuffin and J Journal.
In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.
Regular reminder that the majority of the people who dreamed up the stories you love are, like, BROKE broke, and that most of the money spent on their work was given to Some Guy™️ instead.
“I miss blockbuster video” the library has every dvd totally untouched and I never see you there
There's some good in this world, Charlie Brown. And it's worth fighting for.
Beautiful 🤎
I have disability insurance for everything but my left wrist because I had a ganglion cyst at the time I was assessed.
And the creature reads Ozymandias while he's living with the old man. That felt more appropriate, but I still felt a little 😬 about it
I physically recoiled when I saw that
Reporting for duty🫡
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
did you know the Mountain Goats have a new album out today and you can buy it or stream it and dance to it in your living room or while driving or on the subway and it's a whole vibe? well now you know that 30tgrs.ffm.to/ttfafpb
Started the new @themountaingoats.bsky.social album at 7:30 in the morning.
While we're all out here hollering good news, I have not one, but TWO books coming out next year.
It's Ween
I, too, considered withdrawing my poem, but I decided to hold on out of sheer curiosity 😅
Mine lingered for 2 years and 2 months.
Rushmore wins for me largely due to the academic setting. It feels cozier.
If you want to push back against tech's encroachment into every corner of our lives, you have to read books. They're eager to create a future in which most people are illiterate and hooked on slop, a world without imagination or knowledge. Reading is resistance.
Your books are some of the few that genuinely frighten me. What Moves the Dead gave me the heebiest heebies I've ever jeebied. I sing your praises to everyone who will listen.
did one of these for poets a while ago
Exhibit 15: Julie and Julia
people should subscribe to literary magazines
First person present tense feels like the book is trying too hard.
If you're a writer in the South with a funny, irreverent novel, this is the time to send it to me. I would love to read something like that right now.
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Weekends need to be 3 days long.
