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Grad School
I’ve gotten bitten by the grad school bug, and I think I’m ready to finally apply. It’s been over two years since I’ve been in school, so this whole process feels so weird. I have to find my “best work” whatever that means, and I have to choose between poetry and nonfiction. University of Baltimore…
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New Publication
Hey y’all! New publication up at For the Sonorous Link just to my poem titled “growing up black girl” is here I am so proud of this piece. Please check it out & let me know what you think in the comments below! – A. Elizabeth
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2nd person vs 3rd person
So I’m working on For You, My Best Friend, and I am realizing that half of it, I have written in the first and second person and half of it I have written in first and third person. The struggle. Both sound authentic to the work, but the second person definitely sounds more accusatory even…
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Rejections
I get them. I get a lot of them. And each rejection is starting to hurt just a little less, but I must say, each one also gives me something to strive for. Now I’m not the absolute best by any means. I am not perfect. And generally, my writing is very touchy-feely, very passionate,…
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Snippet letter from the first draft
Like I said in my previous post, the first draft of my nonfiction project (there’s a poetry one coming too!) was written entirely in rants, letters, and poems. Here is a combination of all three from the first draft, something like a prose poem. Feel free to comment and/or make suggestions. I originally wrote this a…
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Projects abound
So, like I said in my previous post, I am working on a longer nonfiction work about a previously platonic turned intimate relationship I’ve had over the years, and I am going to admit something to you that I haven’t admitted to anyone: This project scares me. Words normally don’t scare me. But I am…
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update
I have so missed updating everybody with my work and life, so I have a lot of updates for you! I graduated from undergrad May 2015. I taught for a year and a half, leaving the classroom in order to focus more on myself and my writing. However, I do substitute and work as a…
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Easy (Tentative title)
A work in progress. First poem in a long time that I have written outside of the Hollins bubble. Covers part of being a black girl.
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vickers road
jagged vines crack white siding two black doors with single diamond windows rocking on hinges splayed open into hallways windows fallen to ground shattered splintered wooden steps rusted over railings no more mown grass or laundry on clothes wire golden daffodil garden gone green for sale sign leering from the screened-in porch my father says…
Ashley Elizabeth 