Emily Rose Cole
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Member Since
July 2012
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Love & a Loaded Gun
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2017
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Fiolet & Wing: An Anthology of Domestic Fabulist Poetry
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2019
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2 editions
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Thunderhead (Wisconsin Poetry Series)
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Bramble & Thorn
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Red Sky: Poetry on the Global Epidemic of Violence Against Women
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The Pinch Journal
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The London Reader: Divisions: Stories of Inequality, Poverty and Struggle
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2020
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“What did i expect ?
To leave a hemorrhage
of violets wherever I walked ?
No. A lost son is called prodigal.
A lost daughter is just called lost”
― Love & a Loaded Gun
To leave a hemorrhage
of violets wherever I walked ?
No. A lost son is called prodigal.
A lost daughter is just called lost”
― Love & a Loaded Gun
“I have lived my life in pursuit of the remade world...
I believe in truth. I believe in truth denied any use of it can believe in it. I know its power. I know the threat it represents to a world constructed on lies.
I know the myths of the family that thread through our society's literature, music, politics - and I know the reality. The reality is that for many of us family was as much the incubator of despair as the safe nurturing haven the myths promised... But I also believe in hope...
The worst thing done to us in the name of a civilized society is to label the truth of our lives material outside the legitimate subject matter of serious writers...
I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way. Do not buy into their system of censorship, imagining that if you drop this character or hide that emotion, you can slide through their blockades. Do not eat your heart out in the hope of pleasing them. The only hope you have, the only hope any of us has, is the remade life.”
― Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature
I believe in truth. I believe in truth denied any use of it can believe in it. I know its power. I know the threat it represents to a world constructed on lies.
I know the myths of the family that thread through our society's literature, music, politics - and I know the reality. The reality is that for many of us family was as much the incubator of despair as the safe nurturing haven the myths promised... But I also believe in hope...
The worst thing done to us in the name of a civilized society is to label the truth of our lives material outside the legitimate subject matter of serious writers...
I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way. Do not buy into their system of censorship, imagining that if you drop this character or hide that emotion, you can slide through their blockades. Do not eat your heart out in the hope of pleasing them. The only hope you have, the only hope any of us has, is the remade life.”
― Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature

















