Can we talk about going back to school yet!?!?!?

Today at the #APseminar #APreading a kid’s paper contained the word “cowworker,” which I must assume was a mistake but hope otherwise in my heart.

#APSeminar kiddos. Here I come to grade your papers. 😘 #SLC #APSem

Add “-ai” after your Google search terms to remove the god-awful ai generated first entry.

This is Teddy. He is a #burmesemountain dog + a #goldendoodle dog. I call him a Burden Doodle.

56 or so #APseminar prezzies conducted in two days:

Rules! Lots of rules! 💕 #LordoftheFlies

Happy 100th anniversary to The Great Gatsby. If given the chance I would babble on about it for 100 more years!

What!?!? #poeminyourpocketday is during Spring Break!?!? My students will have to wait until next week for their little surprise! Until then, enjoy this tiny beauty from Raymond Carver! #PocketPoem

Looking around @ivanallencollege.bsky.social today with my girl, and we had to take a peek at Poetry@Tech

Feeling super proud that during my first year as our school’s literary magazine faculty adviser, we landed an interview with former US Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky!

Been writing a smidge more lately and just updated my @chillsubs.bsky.social publication list here: www.chillsubs.com/profile/erin...

Lately I’ve been getting some nice and personalized “no thank yous but keep it up” from journals I really admire. And for now, I’ll count that as a win.

I didn’t realize how much my daughter’s ant farm traumatized me until I started writing a poem and that poem became an ant farm poem. #amwriting

Thanks @susangbarber.bsky.social . It is an honor to share a hall with you 🥹

Emily Brontë is understandably skeptical of AI.

Which one should be my first book of 2025?

All I want for Christmas Eve is for people to stop center-aligning text that isn’t a title.

Finals Week - Day One.

Happy Gregor Samsa Day! #TheMetamorphosis #kafkaesque

I keep saying I’m not gonna make it through this week, but with kiddos like mine, I probably will.

Hmmmm…I’ll pick this for my first post