Emma Bolden is the author of a memoir, The Tiger and the Cage: A Memoir of a Body in Crisis (Soft Skull), and the poetry collections House Is an Enigma, medi(t)ations, and Maleficae. Her work has appeared in such journals as Ploughshares, The Gettysburg Review, the New England Review, The Seneca Review, Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, TriQuarterly, and Shenandoah. The recipient of an NEA Fellowship, she is an editor of Screen Door Review.

Other poems by Emma Bolden in Verse Daily:
September 27, 2024:   "Tornado Weather" "The last high sweat of an August..."
August 4, 2024:   "Postdiluvian" "A flinch of sky shattered into an iridescence...."
August 23, 2023:   "Theism" "Someone stole the wind & the sky..."
March 31, 2021:   "When You're a Star, They Let You Do It" by "The man golded, eagled & emptied of..."
February 24, 2021:   "Poem After Watching An Inconvenient Truth With My Students" "If you're writing a poem about a tree..."
February 21, 2020:   "Home Movies" "Look at all of the girls I was. Stumble..."

Other poems on the web by Emma Bolden:
"Joy"
"God's Voice Was Not In"
"Girlhood"
"Directional Points"
"Apocalyptic Love Song"
"Psalm of the Unclean"
Two poems
Two poems
Three poems
Three poems
Three poems
"Plenary Absolution"
"This Is Not a Poem for You"
"In the Springtime of Her Voodoo"
"Christmas, 2016"
"American Beatitudes"
Four poems
"In Deep"
Four poems
Two poems
"...In the Gray"
"House is an Embarrassment"

Emma Bolden's Website.

When I Was Straight: A Tribute to Maureen Seaton
Editor: Dustin Brookshire
Other poems from When I Was Straight: A Tribute to Maureen Seaton in Verse Daily:
February 16, 2025:   "When I Was Straight" by Diamond Forde
February 15, 2025:   "When I Was Straight" by Charles Jensen