I've been working on getting "The Essay Exhibits" ready to hang at the Orwell Free Library and I think all the pieces will finally be up later today. On Wednesday, October 16th at 7PM I will be reading from Made Holy, answering questions about the book, and signing and selling books! I hope you can … Continue reading October
Book Launch This Friday 6PM
For those of you who live in the Burlington area, I hope you will join me THIS FRIDAY EVENING from 6PM - 8PM at BCA (the Firehouse Gallery) upstairs for a reading, book signing, and celebration of Made Holy. Dear Friends, The best part about publishing this book is that so many of my friends … Continue reading Book Launch This Friday 6PM
Join Me for a Facebook Live Event Tonight
Join the conversation on why I wrote Made Holy!
Mid-Summer Daydreams
Mid-summer and I am dreaming of bees. My husband, dream midwife, has given me seven days to ride a horse in my dreams, but I sleep late and wake and forget as my youngest nudges me up, Come, play. In the field adjacent to the house, a hidden stream between us, my husband and oldest … Continue reading Mid-Summer Daydreams
Summer Writing Practice
Leaf Summer arrives in the North like a dream. Exuberant, joyous, freeing. One thing I love about my summer is watching my sons run wild. Bedtime is extended, the outdoors becomes a roving playground, and I see their swift transformation into wilder versions of themselves. They find a freedom in the unscheduled hours we occupy. … Continue reading Summer Writing Practice
Made Holy Available for pre-order!
Hi there, Happy Summer. Made Holy is now available for pre-order from the University of Georgia Press. Pub date: September 1, 2019 I hope you'll consider ordering yourself a copy! Happy reading. -e
Rage.
I'm filled with it. It's a tension in my spine. A desire to pummel. I sick echo in the belly. A longing to turn away. A desperate sadness that women are dehumanized, that my body is not considered my own in this country.
Thoughts on the White Imagination
Photo by Toa Heftiba For a few weeks now I have been working with some fabulous writers on a panel proposal for next year's AWP Conference in San Antonio. Before this, in preparation for a job interview lesson I was to teach, I had returned to Claudia Rankine's book Citizen: An American Lyric and while I … Continue reading Thoughts on the White Imagination
See you at AWP in Portland
It's that time of year. Time for the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference and this year it's in Portland, Oregon. Come see me talk about writing and find out what the game Neon Daycare, which I played with my sisters and cousins as a young girl, has to do with writing. Saturday 1:30 … Continue reading See you at AWP in Portland
Possum O’Possum: A list of things to ponder
We talk about the weather here. All. The. Time. It shifts and changes and plays tricks. It's March and the cedar waxwings have returned, or so they say. The robins must be on their way. Wild turkeys stalk our woods like soldiers. I follow their tracks up the mountain. I have been ill and then … Continue reading Possum O’Possum: A list of things to ponder
Emily Arnason Casey 