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‘The Yellow Wall-Paper’ Book Club: Divinest Sense

By Megan Willome 3 Comments

Sara Barkat

Join author Megan Willome as we read a graphic novel of ‘The Yellow Wall-Paper’ using Emily Dickinson’s poem ‘Much Madness is divinest Sense–’ as our guide.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, book reviews, Classic Books, Emily Dickinson, Graphic Novel, Patron Only, The Yellow Wall-Paper

‘The Yellow Wall-Paper’ Book Club: Tell It Slant

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Sara Barkat

Join author Megan Willome as we read a graphic novel of ‘The Yellow Wall-Paper’ using Emily Dickinson’s poem ‘Tell all the truth but tell it slant–’ as our guide.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, Classic Books, Emily Dickinson, Graphic Novel, Patron Only, The Yellow Wall-Paper

‘The Yellow Wall-Paper’ Book Club: The Thing With Feathers

By Megan Willome 2 Comments

graphic novel Sara Barkat

Join author Megan Willome as we read a graphic novel of “The Yellow Wall-Paper” using Emily Dickinson’s poem “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers–” as our guide.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, book reviews, Classic Books, Emily Dickinson, Graphic Novel, Patron Only, The Yellow Wall-Paper, Writing

Poet Laura: Keeping Your Distance with Emily Dickinson

By Tania Runyan 5 Comments

Foggy sun through trees

In these days of social distancing, Emily Dickinson proves a wonderful guide to the sustained solitude and isolation many are facing for the first time.

Filed Under: Blog, Emily Dickinson, Poet Laura

Poet Laura: I Read Poems to Some Chickens!

By Tania Runyan 3 Comments

Chickens in the Snow

On a frosty day in suburban Illinois, Tweetspeak’s Poet Laura, Tania Runyan, gathers up four hens and an Emily Dickinson collection for an adventure in reading poems to chickens.

Filed Under: Blog, Chicken poems, Emily Dickinson, Poet Laura

By Heart: Emily Dickinson + New “Lake Isle of Innisfree” Challenge

By Megan Willome 3 Comments

started early took dog

Even after spending a month with Dickinson and her unnamed dog (there is an unnamed dog in Sendak’s story too), I still don’t know what the poem means. And I did not go looking for an interpretation of it. I simply enjoyed the poem, dashes and all, says Megan Willome.

Filed Under: Blog, By Heart, Emily Dickinson

Novel, Poetry, Both? Max Porter and “Grief Is the Thing with Feathers”

By Glynn Young 5 Comments

Bird in Tree Max Porter

“Grief Is the Thing with Feathers” by British author Max Porter is officially a novel, but it could also be poetry, or something else. And it’s wonderful.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Books, Britain, Emily Dickinson, Grief Poems, London, poetry

Your Work Is Poetry: Poetry at Work Day 2018!

By Glynn Young 23 Comments

Happy Poetry at Work Day It's Time for a Poetry Break

Today is Poetry at Work Day 2018. Most poets have day jobs, because poetry isn’t that lucrative a profession. But poetry is inherent in all work.

Filed Under: article, Emily Dickinson, Maya Angelou, Poems, poetry, Poetry at Work, Poetry at Work Day, Poets, T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Walt Whitman

Emily Dickinson and The Sea: A Poem of Transcendence

By Richard Maxson 8 Comments

Emily Dickinson and the Sea Poem of Transcendence

Is Emily Dickinson’s ‘I Started Early – Took My Dog’ really just about the sea? Or is it something more? This poem analysis argues for transcendence.

Filed Under: Blog, Emily Dickinson, Literary Analysis, Poem Analysis

Video: Emily Dickinson’s I Started Early – Took My Dog

By T.S. Poetry 12 Comments

Video Emily Dickinson I started early took my dog shoes in water

We have a thing for Emily Dickinson. Sort of. This video of Emily’s I Started Early – Took My Dog can only make it…wetter. Um, better.

Filed Under: Blog, Emily Dickinson

It’s Take Your Poet to Work Day!

By Will Willingham 8 Comments

Emily Dickinson - Sylvia Plath - WB Yeats with coffee

It’s Take Your Poet to Work Day. Check out coffee shop GIF winner and learn 3 great ways to celebrate with your poet at work today.

Filed Under: Blog, Coffee Poems, Emily Dickinson, Take Your Poet to Work Day

It’s Poem on Your Pillow Day! (Plus, Pillow History You Never Knew)

By Will Willingham 11 Comments

Poem on Your Pillow Day

It’s Poem on Your Pillow Day! Learn the pillow’s history and the connection between hope, feathers, and pillows and celebrate sweet poetry dreams with us.

Filed Under: Blog, Emily Dickinson, Poem on Your Pillow Day, poetry

Thanksgiving Poem: Emily Dickinson’s 814 (One Day is there of the Series)

By Will Willingham 1 Comment

thanksgiving poem emily dickinson

Thanksgiving, it seems, is at much an act of memory as of the present moment, a time of reflection. At least to hear Emily Dickinson tell it.

Filed Under: Blog, Emily Dickinson, Family Poems, Thanksgiving Poems

The Best in Poetry: This Month’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 3 Comments

best in poetry

Artful chocolate, famous punk authors, poetry in the supermarket, and how to not write a novel. It’s the best in poetry: our monthly Top Ten Poetic Picks.

Filed Under: Blog, Books, Children's Stories, Emily Dickinson, Libraries, poetry, Top 10 Poetic Picks

Poetry at Work: The Poetry of Institutional Memory

By Glynn Young 6 Comments

Institutional Memory

With access to technology, the Internet and new tools, organizations have come to believe institutional memory is not important. They’re wrong.

Filed Under: Door Photos, Emily Dickinson, poetry, poetry and business, Poetry at Work, work poems

This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 5 Comments

top ten poetry picks

San Francisco in toothpicks, getting Beowulf wrong, everything Emily Dickinson ever wrote on. It’s this week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks.

Filed Under: Billy Collins, Blog, Books, Cat Poems, Emily Dickinson, poetry, Top 10 Poetic Picks

Take Your Poet to Work: Emily Dickinson

By Will Willingham 31 Comments

Take Your Poet to Work Emily Dickinson cover

Reclusive Emily Dickinson is the perfect poet for Take Your Poet to Work Day if you work from home. She won’t even complain if you work in your pajamas—she’ll be ghosting about in a house dress that’s as white as the bed linens.

Filed Under: Blog, Emily Dickinson, Hope Poems, love poems, love poetry, Poems, poetry, Take Your Poet to Work Day

Finding God with Emily Dickinson (and a Giveaway)

By Glynn Young 35 Comments

In “I Told My Soul to Sing: Finding God with Emily Dickinson, ” Kristin LeMay uses 30 poems to navigate the rocks of belief, prayer, and mortality. LeMay’s Dickinson is remarkably human. Glynn Young reviews this new volume and has a giveaway.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Emily Dickinson, poetry

A Pencil for Emily Dickinson

By Will Willingham 23 Comments

Emily Dickinson pencil

I stopped recently at the home of Emily Dickinson, in Amherst, Mass., to make things right. And sweet baby irony—would you guess she stood me up?

Filed Under: Blog, Emily Dickinson, Literary Tour, poetry

Tweetspeak Exclusive: Yet Another Emily Dickinson Daguerreotype Discovered

By Will Willingham 7 Comments

The recent discovery of a third daguerreotype of Victorian-era poet Emily Dickinson has historians scratching their heads.

Filed Under: Blog, Emily Dickinson, poetry, poetry humor, poetry news

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