Emily Rapp
- Location
- Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
- Birthday
- July 12
- Bio
- Emily Rapp is the author of Poster Child: A Memoir, and Dear Dr. Frankenstein: A Love Story, which is forthcoming from Penguin Press in March 2013. She is also the author of many essays and stories in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Bellevue Literary Review, The Sun, Body + Soul, StoryQuarterly, The Texas Observer, and other publications. She is currently Professor of Creative Writing at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design in Santa Fe, New Mexico and a faculty member with the University of California-Riverside Palm Desert MFA Program.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Guest Blog by Elizabeth
Tannen!
May 18, 2012 05:08PM - Wasp’s Nest
April 20, 2012 06:21PM - A gift from my friend
Monika….
April 01, 2012 06:51PM - Rick Santorum, Meet My Son
February 28, 2012 11:48AM - A Poem for Elliott Benson
February 09, 2012 12:19AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “I love this post, and
the message it communicates:
we never
know what private
bat…”
September 21, 2011 05:54PM - “Way to keep it real,
Bonnie! I, too, remember those
first
post-divorce beds,
and…”
May 11, 2011 04:12PM - “I love that you're
writing about this, and with
such great
care and compassion
an…”
May 11, 2011 01:29PM - “So well put. The saddest
part of about divorce, at
least for
me, was finding
out…”
May 11, 2011 01:28PM - “The
insurance-via-employer system
is a misguided one; you
make
that so clear in
t…”
April 27, 2011 07:04PM
Guest Blog by Elizabeth Tannen!
A beautiful post by my friend, the terrific and talented writer Elizabeth Tannen.
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       It’s evening in Santa Fe, and I’m standing with Ronan in his bedroom. He lies on his changing table, his body still, sheathed in a long-sleeved onesie dotted with penguins. I stand… Read full post »
Wasp’s Nest
Tonight, at the National Tay-Sachs and Allied Diseases Organization’s Annual Family Conference in Orlando, I attended a commemoration ceremony for the children who have died this year and in previous years. The name of each child was read aloud. Pictures were shown. Candles were lit. A room ful… Read full post »
A gift from my friend Monika….
For Emily
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Last night you dreamed of a silver lake, a shelf of ice on the side of a mountain, and a sleeping brown bear.
The icy side of the mountain came with all the familiar sounds – a sizzling crack somewhere deep and unseen, some wind blowing like a… Read full post »
Rick Santorum, Meet My Son
New post on Slate.com – “He has a degenerative disease that has left him blind, paralyzed, and increasingly nonresponsive. If I had known before he was born, I would have saved him from suffering.”
http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2012/02/rick_santorum_and_prenatal_tes… Read full post »
A Poem for Elliott Benson
Today I got an email from my friend Phil in New York – a dear friend from graduate school who has already seen me, ten years ago, through a difficult time. A few weeks ago I received a beautiful letter from him, and I wrote an email this morning to thank… Read full post »
The Open Road: Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling Revisited
A new essay on The Nervous Breakdown. A re-interpretation of Kierkegaard’s re-imagining of the sacrifice of Isaac from the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible.
%IMA… Read full post » The Rumpus
Today an essay in the Rumpus, about the life-saving power of female friendship. Thanks to Gina Frangello for commissioning the piece.
%IMA… Of a Beautiful …
Of a Beautiful Child
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I am becoming cicada husk, the cool
Throat of an empty vase, the dark space
Between stars. You touch me and I see
That monstrous child Montaigne pitied
On the streets of Paris – my inseparable twin
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Hanging from the center of my chest,
Your… Read full post »
Anniversary
 Anniversary
This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary.
The trees of the mind are black. The light is blue.
The grasses unload their griefs on my feet as if I were a God.
Prickling my ankles and murmuring of their humility.
Fumy, spiritous mists inhabit this place.
Separated… Read full post »
Poem for Ronan from Alma Luz Villanueva
Thank you, Alma, lovely poet full of generosity and compassion, for this gift of a poem for Ronan. Lorca was my muse this summer, so Alma is also a mind-reader!
“Where is the duende? Through the empty arch comes
a wind, a mental wind, blowing relentlessly over the
heads of the… Read full post »
When Bad Things Happen to Good Babies, and, the Brazilian Butt Lift as Grief Management Strategy
For Sarah
Every year I make resolutions. Every year I collect convenient pull-out workouts from Health or Self or Glamour or whichever magazine features glossy hotties beaming from the cover in some bust-boosting mini-dress, promising that you, too, can be a hottie (but also grounded and a good cook… Read full post »
“Children’s Hospital,” by Katie Ford
Today a poem by Katie Ford, a friend, prophetic poet, and mama. I met Katie at Harvard Divinity School, where we were both students. Her poems have been making people stop in their tracks and take a deep breath since then. Amazing, searing language wedded to huge intellectual power and gorgeous… Read full post »
NYC Benefit
Our friends Cynthia and Yaron recently held an event in New York City to benefit Ronan and NTSAD (National Tay-Sachs & Allied Diseases Association). They raised over $6,000! The adults mingled downstairs, and upstairs they had a face painter and balloon twister for the kids. Thank you!
A Poem for Ronan by Naomi Shihab Nye
Naomi was my teacher at UT-Austin, a poet of grace and compassion, a terrific person, a fantastic teacher. I thank her for these words about Ronan.
Little Seal
We would hold you from far, far away.
Seals are slippery, hard to grasp.
We would hold your mother and father –
… Read full post »
I am calm. I am calm. It is the calm before something awful:
The yellow minute before the wind walks, when the leaves
Turn up their hands, their pallors. It is so quiet here.
The sheets, the faces, are white and stopped, like clocks.
Voices stand back and flatten.
-Sylvia Plath,… Read full post »
The Nervous Breakdown
This month’s essay on The Nervous Breakdown
http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/emrapp/2011/12/there-is-a-monster-at-the-end-of-this-book/
Spin-a-Thon Fun
On Sunday the Santa Fe Spa hosted an amazing 2-hour spin-a-thon and silent auction in honor of Ronan and the National Tay-Sachs and Allied Disease Organization! Thank you SO MUCH to the amazing instructors, spinners, drummers, smoothie-makers, cookie-bakers, and contributors who made this eve… Read full post »
Warrior
Please take a moment to learn about Rachel Pastiloff’s son. Dragon mama!
http://manifestationyoga.com/2011/11/23/warrior/
On Being Blog
An article today about Ronan on NPR’s On Being blog. Photos by Jennifer Weber!
http://blog.onbeing.org/post/13343947636/into-the-wilderness-parenting-a-terminally-ill-child
Calvin’s Story
Please take a moment to read about Calvin! A perfect example of a “new” parenting narrative.
http://www.calvinsstory.com/
Yoga Blog!
Check out my guest blog on my good friend Jennifer Pastiloff’s amazing blog.
http://manifestationyoga.com/2011/11/20/closing-the-exit-door-guest-post-by-emily-rapp/
“Kindred Spirits” essay in The Bark magazine
I have an essay in the Nov./Dec. issues of The Bark magazine, where I write about Ronan, my beloved dog Bandit, and the amazing Kindred Spirits Animal Sanctuary, a hospice facility for animals with no place else to go.
We Belong
Hope, they say, deserts us at no period of our existence.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
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How do you know, without the words
to say it, that you are the summation of a lifetime
of desire? And when you know, do the stars emerge
from blackness, or arrive like shots… Read full post »
Talk of the Nation
Dear Readers,
Tomorrow I’ll be on NPR’s Talk of the Nation program discussing the lessons that can be learned from parenting a terminally ill child. The program will air at 2 pm EST on your local NPR station, and I’ll also post a podcast when I can! Thanks!
… Read full post » 
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