Author: dr. emily bobo

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. She is also a freelance writing coach and certified writing facilitator with Women Writing for (a) Change Bloomington. Currently, Dr. Bobo is 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.

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.  

“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.

“Apple Tree”

Video. Music by Kevin Bobo. Words by Emily Bobo. Work commissioned and performed by Freedom High School.

“Popping Bubbles”

Video. Music by Don Freund. Words by Emily Bobo. “I tried to capture in music something analogous to the worldview I sense in Emily’s poems: strongly rooted in day-to-day reality, but ready to transform at the pop of a bubble into something magical, transfigured, and transcendent” (Don Freund).

Bobo Books Project: Turning poems into sandwiches

Interview. “Bobo Books: A Salute to the Sustaining Power of Poetry.” Article. “The power of poetry will soon be able to feed local children in need of a little help” (Associated Press).

Fugue in Review

  Review. “Throughout this collection, Bobo ‘tends the wound’ of not playing piano through parable, epistle, and child-like declamations, layering rich contrapuntal melodies sung on the theme of loss” (Robert Peake). Fugue. Available from Lost Horse Press.