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Wear White for Emily
(0)Today is Emily Dickison’s birthday, her 178th.
The Academy of American Poets has a bio and a pretty exciting anthology of her poems, as does The Poetry Foundation, including a reading of “Snowflakes.”
I suggest you read something like “Wild Nights” to counter the rather bland and conventional poem Garrison Keillor chose for the Writers Almanac today.
Bartleby.com has The Complete Poems of 1924, and you’ll find a number of interactive teaching resources at the Dickinson Electronic Archive.
Addendum: And, just to be cutting edge, here is Joyce Carol Oates’s EDickinsonRepliLuxe, portions of which Miss Oates read here in September at the Kentucky Women Writers Conference. (Link thanks to Ellen Moody.)
Addendum II: Also, Amy King suggests that we call in gay today. If it’s too late to do that, here are some other ways to show solidarity.
Addendum III: And the Global Sociology Blog reminds us that today is the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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