emily dickinson

4 min read 2022-05-04 14:15:15

Death and Poetry: Emily Dickinson

We’d like to thank Mady Wilson for this lovely and refreshing piece on Dickinson and death! Mady is a writer who holds a degree in Literature and

3 min read 2022-04-23 06:34:57

In a sense, all of Emily Dickinson’s letters are “love-letters.” To her, little besides love, human and divine, was worth writing about, and

9 min read 2022-04-16 00:37:07

Behind many great historical figures are even greater siblings! The stories of these nine siblings and their own claims to fame will make you wonder

22 min read 2022-04-15 17:00:00

“If we love flowers, are we not born again every day . . .” (Emily Dickinson to Mrs. George S. Dickerman, 1886) Happy Good Friday and Happy

2 min read 2022-04-13 19:00:48

I am constantly in awe of the beauty that is all around me if I have my eyes open to it. Sometimes I find it in funny texts, my office being put

2 min read 2022-04-04 19:30:12

Surgeons must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the Culprit — Life! –Emily Dickinson Somehow we are

3 min read 2022-04-01 14:00:57

Begin with a brief but informal questionnaire: Who typically takes out the trash? Who is carrying Infinite Jest on their person? Whom do birds trust

2 min read 2022-03-24 01:00:02

We — Bee and I — live by the quaffing — ‘Tisn’t all Hock — with us — Life has its Ale — But it’s many a lay of the Dim Burgundy

3 min read 2022-03-22 21:00:23

Poetry can be a way for people to come together. Saul Loeb – Pool/Getty Images – 4 essential reads by Alvin Buyinza, The Conversation When

2 min read 2022-03-10 20:30:38

To pile like Thunder to its close Then crumble grand away While Everything created hid This — would be Poetry — Or Love — the two coeval come

5 min read 2022-02-13 10:32:24

Nicolas Chamfort? Emily Dickinson? Franz Liszt? Garrison Keillor? Apocryphal? Dear Quote Investigator: The dark side of celebrity is now widely

3 min read 2022-01-21 14:29:58

The Dickinson painting. Harvard Art Museums, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Here we go. Piss Off Early, Tomorrow’s Saturday and this one is a

3 min read 2022-01-05 20:54:40

Welcome to the clean slate of a brand-new year! As we move forward, this is a great time to think about making a fresh start in your life and in

4 min read 2021-12-17 04:21:09

In the first episode of Dickinson, Apple+ TV’s unorthodox, anachronistic series about the life and work of the 19th-century poet Emily Dickinson,

5 min read 2021-12-13 22:33:44

Back in June, I noted that Ethan Nordean’s lawyers were staking his defense on getting all the crimes charged against him thrown out — from the