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meet me at sunrise, or sunset, or the new moon

Michael Hartford — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:35:32 +0000

At the intersection of family history and literary scholarship, Carol Damon Andrews has found what may be the secret source of much of Emily Dickinson's most interesting and passionate poetry: a doomed love affair with George Gould.

LOST JOY.

Michael Hartford — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:33:21 +0000

I had a daily bliss
I half indifferent viewed,
Till sudden I perceived it stir, --
It grew as I pursued

Posting Schedule: Resuming August 20, 2008

Michael Hartford — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:52:13 +0000

After our long summer hiatus (which is not in any way to be confused with a vacation...), the Daily Dickinson poetry feed will resume on August 20, 2008. Enough daily poems are queued up to keep things rolling on a daily schedule for a good while.

Tea with Emily Dickinson

Michael Hartford — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:01:16 +0000

Dickinson fans in the Boston area can check out Beth Goldman as Emily Dickinson at the Waltham Public Library, 735 Main Street, Waltham, MA. The performance begins at 7:30 PM.

I sing to use the Waiting

Michael Hartford — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:42:30 +0000

According to the Dublin Evening Herald, people waiting at the Naas Hospital Kildare and other places around the region will have the chance to read a little poetry instead of just out-of-date celebrity rags and old medical journals.

’Tis Terror as consummate as Legions of Alarm did leap

Michael Hartford — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:22:49 +0000

In the Boston Review, Maureen McLane explores the intriguing possibility of Emily Dickinson as a poet of terror.

buttons, ribbons. feathers and lace

Michael Hartford — Sat, 24 May 2008 18:17:26 +0000

Book artist Charles Hobson interpreted Billy Collins' "Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes" in a wonderfully inventive way.

From Beyond the Grave

Michael Hartford — Sun, 18 May 2008 14:40:11 +0000

Kurt Anderson's Studio 360 rebroadcasts a 2006 piece on Emily Dickinson as part of the show's American Icons series.

Exponent of Earth

Michael Hartford — Sun, 11 May 2008 12:47:04 +0000

In her show at the Derek Eller Gallery in New York, sculptor Jessica Jackson Hutchins shows some Dickinsonian roots.

just groupings of comfortable chairs

Michael Hartford — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:50:10 +0000

In addition to the reading, there will be a continuous viewing of the Julie Harris "Belle of Amherst" film, and a chance to "Create Your Own Dickinson Poem" from cut-up lines (Dickinson meets William S. Burroughs?). And if 8 PM comes around and poem 1,789 hasn't been read yet, the event decamps to Koch Commons until midnight.