Professor Emily Bobo talks with Dr. Filiz Cicek about writing poetry as a way of understanding life and creating meaning, and the discomfort that arises from it at times, and its function, for her and the readers. Audio.
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Dr. Emily Bobo is the author of three books: Fugue (Lost Horse Press, 2009), Instrumental (Hemlock House, 2019), and Tattle Tales (Hemlock House, 2019). She is also the founder and editor of Bobo Books, a local, non-profit anthology series, turning poems into sandwiches for public school kids. She has published original works in literary magazines, such as Hermeneutic Chaos, december, Seneca Review, and Redivider. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Wichita State University and her PhD in English Literature from the University of Kansas. Currently, Dr. Bobo is Department Chair of Fine Arts & Humanities and Professor of English at Ivy Tech Community College-Bloomington, where she teaches writing to single moms, ex-cons, military vets, and other (non)traditional students.
Corner of Disappearing Names
Audio. Corner of Disappearing Names Music by Kevin Bobo. Text by Emily Bobo. Performed and recorded by Troy University Collegiate Singers (2014). At the corner of Headstone Street, And Disappearing Lane, Heat rattles the leaves of the Redwood tree And burns the evergreens ever-brown. A young girl’s tears once kissed these stones, …
ArtBeat! Episode 11: Professor Emily Bobo — Poetry & Truth
In today’s episode, Professor Emily Bobo talks with Dr. Cicek about recording her truth(s) through poetry, understanding how truth works and shares a section of a poem from her book Instrumental. Audio.
Review of Tattle Tales
“Each one of these tales packs a gut punch as it shows us that contemporary America is as scary as any ancient, witch-filled forest. Loved the appropriately-Grimm illustrations as well” (clb).
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Andrew Marvel wrote, “had he world enough and time,” he would devote “Two hundred [years] to adore each [of his mistress’s] breast[s].” Audio. Dr. Bobo reads “Ode to My Mother and Our Little Breasts,” “lying in the MRI like lying on a guillotine,” “Postcard to my aunt who died of breast cancer,” and “Our Lady of Wheat.” …
Review of Instrumental
“Instrumental is sometimes tough — there is anger and sadness and hurt —but it’s so authentically told that the collection is remarkably beautiful,” (Christine Brandel). For the full review at clbwrites.com, click here.
Available Now!
Available NOW from Hemlock House Press on Amazon.com: Instrumental (poems) by Emily Bobo $15.00 Tattle Tales (flash fiction) by Emily Bobo with illustrations by Amy Brier $12.00 Available on Amazon 2/1/2019.
“The More You Know”
Audio. Three poems by Emily Bobo recorded on WFIU’s The Poets Weave: “Things You Should Know About Me,” “Furrowed,” and “The Lies We Need.” Photo by Charity Heggestad at the Joy of Film. Emily Dickinson put two day lilies into Higginson’s hand and said, “‘These are my introduction’ and ‘Forgive me if I am frightened.’…
“Classified”
Text. Published 12/4/18 in the 10th issue of After Happy Hour Review (28-29). “I. Gently used baby / grand. Rebuilt soundboard. Keys trill / grief like Woolf’s sparrow.”
“Tattle Tales”
Video. “Tattle Tales” by Emily Bobo re-imagine Grimms’ fairy tales. Performed as part of Ivy Tech’s Writing Across Communities, Nov. 2018.
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