Gifts For Emily Dickinson Fans
How To Show You Love Someone Who Loves Emily Dickinson
Books of poems on this page include poems for kids and books by authors who've studied Dickinson poetry. These may be just the thing for a reader who wants help with poetry insights. Emily Dickinson, while profound and difficult at times, is also humorous, lyrical, succinct and full of narratives. There are some creative manipulations of the poet's famous daguerreotype image. I've included ones I think render the old-world portrait as edgy, mysterious and completely modern. As I descr...

Emily Dickinson The Less is More Poet
Why Emily Dickinson Is The Wonder Woman In My Story
I sat in a small classroom at Salem College in North Carolina. It was the 1970s when the "Women's Movement," a term now so quaint, was off to the races. The first episode of Wonder Woman in March 1976 told anybody with doubts about action, fantasy and adventure in women's lives to .... well, ... roll over and go back to sleep. A little grey-haired professor stood at the front of the room and read the suspiciously personal, yet baffling - "He fumbles at your Soul/As Players at the Keys...

Emily Dickinson: American Poet
My Favorite Female Poet is...
Emily Dickinson! Eccentric. Quirky. Deep. Mysterious. Shy. Perhaps it is this introversion that I identify so readily with. Nevetheless, her writings have a particular nuance that resonates with me. Maybe it's the fact that she wrote so much over her lifetime, yet so little was published during it. Fewer than a dozen of her poems, in fact. Emily Dickinson was ahead of her time. The publishers of her time didn't know what to do with her unusual and unorthodox rhymes. Often they were edited to ...

Emily Dickinson
The Belle of Amherst
Emily Dickinson was born in 1830 and lived almost her entire life in Amherst, Massachusetts. Her grandfather founded Amherst College. In a very conservative Puritan New England society, Emily dared to be unconventional. She loved natural science (biology) and wrote poetry. She was a religious skeptic. That may be partly why she left college at Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary after only one year. Emily never married and lived her adult life as a recluse in her home, where she lived with her siste...

Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson was an American poet. during her lifetime, Emily Dickinson was known more widely as a gardener, perhaps, than as a poet. Dickinson studied botany from the age of nine and, along with her sister, tended the garden at Homestead. Her niece, Martha Dickinson Bianchi, remembered "carpets of lily-of-the-valley and pansies, platoons of sweetpeas, hyacinths, enough in May to give all the bees of summer dyspepsia. There were ribbons of peony hedges and drifts of daffodils in season, ...