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Emma Bolden

@emmabolden.bsky.social
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Just trying to put words together. God Elegy forthcoming from BOA Editions 2028. The Tiger and the Cage: A Memoir of a Body in Crisis (Soft Skull), House Is an Enigma (Bull City). TMI in your inbox here: substack.com/@emmabolden

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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 11h
my hobby is getting pissed off at strangers on the internet
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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’m stoked to have a poem in the latest issue of Waltz Journal. It involves nuclear war, the internet, and crows.
waltzjournal.com
Drive-Thru Lunch Under the Threat of Nuclear War
My father’s in the backseat, eating chicken nuggets. We’re talking about snow like we know it, like we understand anything these days, waiting for the sky to go violet with siren and smoke.
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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I love Nigella on Bake Off but also I feel the absence of Prue on all levels, especially spiritually
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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
just realized today is not friday and frankly i think that’s unfair
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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
nothing has gone right since taco bell took the meximelt off the menu
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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My review of Fifty Mothers, Preeti Vagani’s gorgeous debut collection from @riverriverbooks.bsky.social, is in the latest issue of @literarymama.bsky.social.
literarymama.com
"Sometimes We Love by Closing a Door": Grief, Mothering, and the Body in Preeti Vangani’s Fifty Mothers
Fifty Mothers, Preeti Vangani’s debut collection, opens with a photograph of the first page of the diary her mother kept while in college in Mumbai. Her mother’s maiden name is scratched out, replaced...
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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
i do not understand onions, like wdym you want to make me cry while i take your clothes off
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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
i think today should be a holiday and i think that holiday should be Go Back To Sleep Day
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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
i ask for your thoughts during this difficult time. my mother has discovered romantasy
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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
my favorite thing about cat people is they can look at a tiny adorable kitten and think “oh that’s Trashbutt McMonsterpants right there”
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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
where does dracula go when he's sick? gothspital (please this is the one and only joke i have ever thought up in my life)
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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
just rescued a lizard that got in the house and now i’m having a talk with my cat about how we don’t try to eat guests
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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
after 700,000 years i have finally posted a new substack
emmabolden.substack.com
The Smoky Eye
Or Why It’s Good to Be a Quitter
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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
i hope the plate disappears from all of my enemies’ microwaves
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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
some people simply should not have to get sick and die
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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Subway is a great place to see people make the worst possible decisions about sandwiches
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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
i’m not constantly spilling on myself, i’m just decorating my shirts
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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
sending my doctor a portal message to ask if he’s mad at me
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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
ever think about how your cat can’t change their clothes
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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
hello afternoon bluesky, i’m proud to have a poem in the latest issue of Four Way Review about pain, language, God, St. Teresa of Ávila, arrows, failure, and things I heard in creative writing workshops. you can visit it (and hear me read it!) here:
fourwayreview.com
I CONSIDER WHAT TO SAY WHEN MY DOCTOR ASKS ME TO DESCRIBE MY PAIN by Emma Bolden
Nothing. I can’t construct a sentence able to withholdthe weight of it; I can’t explain or calculate the kind of weightI mean, what it is that I am with or holding. In high school a teacher explain…
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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
good morning! i hate everything and want to go back to sleep
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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
fast approaching infinite screentime
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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
what perfume am i wearing? oh, downy wrinkle releaser
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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
anyone who’s surprised a nun did a good job throwing the first pitch must not have gone to catholic school, their marker throwing arm is DEADLY
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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
i’ve been learning german for a few years now and let me tell you every single word i learn brings me so much joy, like butterfly is schmetterling. SCHMETTERLING! it’s so good!!!
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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
i’m on top of things but not like, knowing how long it takes to get to places where i regularly go on top of things
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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
i’ve heard temu pronounce 26 wildly different ways and i’m pretty sure none of them were correct
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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
my doctor sent my bloodwork results with no comment or context but no worries, google has diagnosed me with 2,673 diseases and conditions
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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
i wish there was a google for memories, like "who was the kid in first grade who ate crayons?" "where was that one weird mcdonalds with stairs?" "why was i so into musicals again?"
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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
i’m a vegetarian in the summer of 2026 so yeah you could call me a risk taker
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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
extremely pleased to see the clock app labels bts concert livestreams as “intense multi-lingual speed dating”
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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
sometimes i think i’m a person who hates drama and then realize i’ve been following an online fight about a local coinstar machine for two weeks
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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
the nextdoor app in the summer in the south is great bc it's all just "what kind of snake is this" and "how poisonous is this"
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
‘Anthropic described the project as “our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books” in an internal memo, which noted “we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project”.’
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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
and another thing about dawson’s creek: i’m sorry but it’s insane to say that joey and pacey were meant for each other from episode one, clearly and absolutely insane and this is pretty much the only hill i’m willing to die on
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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
few things feel as wrong as dawson’s creek without the paula cole song
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DaddyJew @daddyjew.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
personally, i think you look great in your goth gown, your honor
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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
after decades of struggle tonight i finally did it, i spelled vacuum correctly on the first try
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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
if you're looking for some weekend reading, i've got a new essay thing up on substack about palmistry, doubt, dark nights of the soul, planarian worms, the world book encyclopedia, and writing (or not). you can visit it here:
open.substack.com
Split Life
This post is a writing workshop's nightmare, honestly.
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Football is here Dan @jacketdan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
They keep telling me media literacy is dead but then I see videos like this and I know it jot to be true
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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
pretty sure the neighborhood kids think i’m a witch and honestly it’s my greatest accomplishment
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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
if everyone could just stop being so much cooler than me that would be great
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The Sierra Nevada Review @sierranevadareview.com · 18/07/2026
Read Emma Bolden’s @emmabolden.bsky.social poem, “Sliding into Scale,” at sierranevadareview.com/emma-bolden-...
"It is all so embarrassing. I mean how small a human body looks / against the sky. I mean the way milk always curdles in fruit tea & how // I always forget. To God we must look like sad miniatures. Toys. Like / the bravest mistakes."

from "Sliding into Scale" by Emma Bolden, vol. 37
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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
every once in a while i remember i’m a morning person and then i’m very disappointed in me
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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
nevermind, now it’s all white claw ads, my algorithm has righted itself
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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
i’m watching a show on tubi for the first time and it’s great except i keep getting commercials for funerals, is this normal or is this a special treat for me?
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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
so many problems in my life would be solved by taco bell bringing back the meximelt
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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
making fancams of herman melville 💘
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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
highly recommend getting your cat his own lil korean bbq
A small brown and white cat sits in a Korean BBQ cat house and scratcher. He’s looking out of a window with a little cardboard table with little cardboard gimbap, bibimbap, japchae, tteokbokki, and soju on it. It is ADORABLE.
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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
having a body is so embarrassing
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