Jacquelyn Ardam
@jaxwendy
Director of the Undergraduate Research Center—Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences @ UCLA. Dog Lady. My book Avidly Reads Poetry is out from NYU Press! She/her. www.jacquelynardam.com
Emotional post: when Millie died three days before the start of my summer programs, I really did not know how or if I would make it through them. But the students in MMUF WRTP this year were so brilliant, strong, curious, generous, and community-minded that teaching them was a dream and our time…
I have been scheming and kicking around ideas for a new writing project for months and I couldn’t help but wonder: what if I just write what I know?
Yesterday we had to say goodbye to our sweet girl Millie. We spent our last day together wrapped in an epic cuddle and I got to tell her for the millionth time that she will always be the softest and sweetest most beautiful girl in the world.
happy anniversary to my sweet Millie. It’s been 10 years of wedded bliss!!
the third unexpected reference to the Company documentary in my life in as many days: thank you to the ghost of Stephen Sondheim for haunting me and Patricia Lockwood for writing this perfect chapter
happy national poetry month and happy 4th birthday to my child! I have grown a lot as a person since I wrote her but I still stand by every word and also: wow I did not think Trump would be president again when writing, bleak
I am going to figure out the Dawson-Joey-Pacey love triangle for once and for all
I’m not on here very often but please know that Millie and I are living our best lives in LA
My baby, my baby You're my baby, say it to me Baby, my baby Tell your baby that I'm your baby
If I had not found this book in a thrift shop in west LA when I was trying to figure out a dissertation topic: where would I even be now?!