Jenny Boully - Betwixt-and-Between

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I am grateful to the editors of the following publications and anthologies, in which versions of these pieces first appeared:

the future imagined, the past imagined in MiPOesias

Forecast Essay in How2

On Writing and Witchcraft in LUMINA

Inner Workings, in Meadows in The Force of Whats Possible: Writers on Accessibility & the Avant-Garde

Einstein on the Beach/Postmodernism/Electronic Beeps in Essay Daily

On the Voyager Golden Records in Kenyon Review

The Page as Artifact in Poets on Teaching: A Sourcebook

Between Cassiopeia and Perseus in DIAGRAM

Kafkas Garden in Unsaid

Six Black-and-White Movies in Which I Do Not Find You in Tarpaulin Sky

Moveable Types in Maisonneuve

How to Write on Grand Themes in MiPOesias

The Art of Fiction in ArielX

Fragments in Another Chicago Magazine and effing magazine

22 in Coconut

On the EEO Genre Sheet in Bending Genre: Essays on Creative Nonfiction

Writing Betwixt-and-Between in Family Resemblance: An Anthology and Exploration of Eight Hybrid Literary Genres

On Beginnings and Endings in The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction

The Poets Education was a talk given for the Chicago Poetry Projects Poets Talking lecture series.

Additionally, the following essays also appeared in the now out-of-print chapbook Moveable Types: Forecast Essay, Kafkas Garden, Moveable Types, Fragments, and 22. 22, Fragments, and Between Cassiopeia and Perseus also appeared in of the mismatched teacups, of the singleserving spoon: a book of failures.

I also wish to express my extreme gratitude to Coffee House Press, especially to Chris Fischbach, who quickly believed in this book; to Caroline Casey, who knew there was something there; and, most importantly, to Carla Valadez, who, through her meticulous reading and devotion to meaning, made me believe in this book too.

JENNY BOULLY is the author of The Body, The Book of Beginnings and Endings, not merely because of the unknown that was stalking toward them, and other books. Born in Thailand, she grew up in Texas and holds a PhD in English from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She teaches creative writing and literature at Columbia College Chicago.

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Essays on Writing from Coffee House Press

How We Speak to One Another: An Essay Daily Reader edited by Ander Monson and Craig Reinbold

The Deep Zoo by Rikki Ducornet

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In the writing life, an occasional glance sometimes out of windows where clouds scuttle and the sky is autumn blue, but somehow one is not a part of it; in the writing life, an occasional glance sometimes into the mirror where the body and ones possessions are caught, but somehow one is not a part of it. I keep meaning to but never do throw the thoughts of the outside out. In the writing life, a continual desire to make manifest something known, to somehow be a part of it.

Sometimes, I harbor a strange paranoia that although I keep visiting and having visitors to my desk,