Astrology Moon in Libra Nov 17, 2009
Astrology Moon in Libra. Astrology Moon in Libra. (Suite101.com)
Loretta LaRoche: Sometimes we need to curb our enthusiasm Nov 10, 2009
Mon Nov 09, 2009, 11:29 AM EST. Over the last 30 years I have read hundreds of books about how to increase one s potential through a myriad of processes. (Wakefield Daily Item, MA)
Trivia Bee buzzes Cary Hall Nov 7, 2009
If you correctly answered Emily Dickinson, you were probably in the audience of the Lexington Education Foundation (LEF) 14th Annual Trivia Bee on Thursday ... He joked that he d gotten all of the answers right except maybe that stickler about Emily Dickinson. (Lexington Minuteman, MA)
Al Gore: "I am optimistic" Nov 4, 2009
In my day, we searched for hidden phallic symbols in Emily Dickinson poems. But I digress. (Salon)
Leonard Drohan; his bestseller skewered bureaucracy Oct 29, 2009
Soldiers introduced Mr. Drohan to popular writers such as Raymond Chandler, to the plays of William Shakespeare, and to the poetry of Emily Dickinson. He was stationed in the United States and London during World War II and returned to marry Elizabeth Goodwin, his sister Myllis s friend, in 1948. (Boston Globe)
Falling Plaster Damages Emily Dickinson Artifacts Oct 28, 2009
(AP) - A partial ceiling collapse at the Emily Dickinson Homestead in Amherst has damaged some historical artifacts and forced a temporary closure of the museum ... The 19th-century home of poet Emily Dickinson has been open to the public since 1965 when it was purchased by Amherst College ... On the Web: Emily Dickinson Homestead, http://www. (FOX61, CT)
Camille Paglia Oct 23, 2009
This is exactly the sort of travesty you've railed about in connection to Emily Dickinson, Oscar Wilde, Robert Mapplethorpe and numerous others. I don't know if you'd appreciate being reminded of one more, but this is one that has piqued me recently. (Salon)
‘Massachusetts Poetry in Hard Times,’ at Boston Public Library Oct 14, 2009
David Ferry, Ifeanyi Menkiti, Suji Kwock Kim (below), Jill McDonough, Gail Mazur, and Lloyd Schwartz will read poems by Emily Dickinson and other classic Massachusetts authors as well as those of a fellow panelist. Christopher Lydon moderates. (Boston Globe)
Thomas Moore The Re-Enchantment of ... Oct 13, 2009
The book is replete with fascinating anecdotes from Moore s own life: the story of his father taking him on a tour of the town morgue; his small daughter s sighting of angels; his trip to Ireland on the Queen Mary, and his visit to Emily Dickinson s house where he sought to sit with her ghost rather than listen to the guide. The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life was published in 1996 but is still readily available from. (Suite101.com)
CHANGING LANES: Stepping outside the Hingham bubble Oct 11, 2009
The Emily Dickinson line, Tell the truth but tell it slant. seems to have been an unconscious guiding philosophy. (Hingham Journal, MA)
Harvard buys Updike archive Oct 7, 2009
The archive is so extensive because Updike was not only prolific, he also was a perfectionist, said Leslie Morris, curator of modern books and manuscripts at Houghton Library, which also houses the papers of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville, T.S. Eliot, and Edward Hoagland, a classmate of Updike s.. Updike, a longtime resident of Beverly Farms, was disciplined and usually wrote for three hours every day. (Boston Globe)
Poet demonstrates talent to crowds Sep 18, 2009
The poet and chair of African American Studies Department at Yale University read multiple poems to a packed audience in the Palmer Museum of Art for the annual Emily Dickinson Lecture. The auditorium was in fact so crowded a remote feed had to be set up elsewhere for additional attendees, due to fire regulations, said Robin Schulze, head of the Department of English. (Daily Collegian, PA)
Let us now praise ... canned food Sep 13, 2009
Or Emily Dickinson, out in Amherst, dipping into a can of vanilla pudding. We have come too far to fall back into mere creatureliness: Rodin s Thinker sits on an invisible plinth of canned food. (Boston Globe)
Book launch: Exeter's James Landis talks about 'The Last Day' Sep 13, 2009
" Landis warns the tale might be too long for the article. And there's that hesitation, he's unsure of taking that conversational turn. But he relents.In a nutshell: Landis used a poem by Emily Dickinson in "Artist" and at the time was truly taken by a line that referred to Jesus in the air. "And so that actually was the initial image, somebody looking for Jesus," he says.That's it. That's all he started with. Not a story, a character, narrator just looking for Jesus. There was no thought of... (Seacoast New Hampshire)
‘A Voice of Her Own’ and ‘Shattered’ Aug 27, 2009
A Voice of Her Own; is a fictional autobiography subtitled ;Becoming Emily Dickinson. The author, who spent many years studying the poems and letters of Emily Dickinson, relates the story in first person. (Princeton Bureau County Republican, IL)
The ugly secret why tuition costs a fortune Aug 25, 2009
During the same years, Charles Dickens garnered 3,437 studies, while Emily Dickinson tallied 1,776. Towering at the top was William Shakespeare with 21,674 separate pieces of scholarship and criticism. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Cirque du Soleil returning to the Bay Area Aug 8, 2009
American soprano Lisa Delan will team up with Grammy-award winning pianist Mikhail Pletnev for a performance of "The White Election," composer Gordon Getty's song cycle based on the poetry of Emily Dickinson, on Feb. 23, 2010, at 7:30 p.m. at First Congregational Church in Berkeley. Tenor saxophone master Sonny Rollins will perform at Zellerbach Hall on May 13 at 8 p.m.. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Same-Old, Same-Old Aug 5, 2009
Pope's "Epistle" wakes me up, enlivens me, in a way remarkably different from many poems by George Herbert or Emily Dickinson or Wallace Stevens. This poem is social. (Slate)
Dickinson's As imperceptibly as gri... Aug 1, 2009
In Emily Dickinson's "As imperceptibly as grief," the speaker transmutes her feeling of grief and loss into realization of continuity and beauty. The speaker in Emily Dickinson s (#1540 in Thomas H. Johnson's Complete Poems) muses on the feelings she experiences as she watches summer turning to autumn. (Suite101.com)
Breath Torn Away by September 11th -- A New Literary Collection of Fascinating Proportions Jul 7, 2009
"The book zeroes in on the day itself but, even more, it tells the story of the people towering above this tragedy-people helping strangers and friends as dust and fear permeated the clear blue sky above," says Dickinson, an accomplished poet and a descendant of Emily Dickinson ... William E. Dickinson was born a short drive from Amherst, Massachusetts, his ancestor Emily Dickinson's birthplace. (Primezone Releases)
Richard Brautigan remembered Jun 25, 2009
I loved the operatic, whisky-cooking grandmothers, the man who replaces his plumbing with poetry only to end up in a fist-fight with the verses of Emily Dickinson, and that little old lady who demands a pound of liver from the butcher for her bees. I loved the strings of words: "ragged black toothache sky", "wheelbarrow-sized pile of steaming dragon shit", "April in God-damn". (Harper's Magazine)
Sheared poetry Jun 22, 2009
AMHERST MAY be the real Athens of America (), but Madeleine Blais seems really confused by Emily Dickinson ... Maybe she s channeling a new Emily Dickinson composition. (Boston Globe -- Editorial)
Down With Quiet Domesticity. Up With Crazy Love. Jun 20, 2009
In a fresh reading of literary and historical figures from the Wife of Bath to Emily Dickinson, Nehring sets out to show us the many benefits of throwing ourselves headlong into lovenot least, she reveals, deeper powers of insight ... As the marriage-averse Heloise put it to Abelard, "I never sought anything in you but yourself." Nehring is exhilarated by the theatrical vulnerability in Emily Dickinson's letters to her "Master." Referring to herself in as "Daisy," Dickinson asks, playfully,... (Slate)
A Personal and Cultural History of Migraines May 31, 2009
His fellow "migraineurs," as he calls them, include Thomas Jefferson, Emily Dickinson, Lewis Carroll, Rudyard Kipling, Charles Darwin and Elvis Presley. Reading about their epic suffering, you wonder how they ever got anything done at all. (Time.com)
King film has challenges May 24, 2009
He could greenlight a movie about Emily Dickinson s poetry. Staff writer Jeffry Scott contributed to this story. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
In Lesley Dill's installations, words and images coalesce May 23, 2009
So Emily Dickinson begins one of her poems, and so Lesley Dill titles one of her sculptural installations in the soulful, ecstatic "I Heard a Voice: The Art of Lesley Dill" at the Smith College Museum of Art. In "Word Messengers (A Single Screw of Flesh Is All That Pins the Soul)," crumpled, ethereal figures in black and white rise off the floor, suspended by thread strung through wings made of gothic letters. (Boston Globe)
Summer Quotes May 12, 2009
To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie ; True Poems flee ~Emily Dickinson. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. (Suite101.com)
'Bad Mother’ makes her case - Ayelet Waldman explores transition from legal career to writing about parenthood May 9, 2009
But the novel is also full of boxing and Emily Dickinson and music and Maine and wooden boat building, Waldman says. I mean, boxing is as important as motherhood in this book. (Missoulian, MT)
The Long Goodbye May 7, 2009
I am reminded of Emily Dickinson, who was stunned to learn that the newly widowed Robert Browning had written a poem, "till." As she put it, "I remembered that I myself, in my smaller way, sang off charnel steps." (A charnel-house was a slaughterhouse. . (Slate)
Valley happenings Apr 17, 2009
Maureen Adams, author of "Shaggy Muses: The Dogs Who Inspired Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edith Wharton and Emily Bronte," was featured on NPR's "To the Best of Our Knowledge" show last Sunday. Adams husband, Marty Adams, served as winemaker at Sebastiani and as a principal in Sonoma Cheese Factory for several years. (Sonoma Index-Tribune, CA)
College Student Alert: Beware of One-Party Classrooms Apr 9, 2009
Women's studies courses don't assign readings by any of the great women writers: Jane Austen, George Eliot, Emily Dickinson or the Bronte sisters. Also blacklisted are those who criticize feminism, such as Christina Hoff Sommers, Carolyn Graglia, Daphne Patai and Camille Paglia. (Human Events Online)
The Final Word Apr 8, 2009
By Craig Wilson, USA TODAY. The charms of poetry have long been lost on me. (USA Today -- Life)
The haves & have nots Apr 4, 2009
A few eyebrows must have been raised when Emily Dickinson chose servants to be pallbearers at her Amherst funeral ... Tom Daley's "Every Broom and Bridget - Emily Dickinson and Her Servants" is based on Dickinson's letters, poems, and historical documents, and features three actresses who play the title character: the central character and poet, the coquette, and the waif-like dancing and singing Dickinson (Jade Sylvan as one of the Dickinsons, above). (Boston Globe)
Author Elaine Showalter at Harvard Book Store Apr 1, 2009
She includes Emily Dickinson and Willa Cather in her 250 entries, to be sure, but also the likes of Dorothy Canfield Fisher and Jennifer Weiner. In her recent review in the Globe, critic Mary Loeffelholz wrote, "At the heart of 'A Jury of Her Peers' lies a robustly middlebrow pantheon of the realistic novel as written by American women, from Harriet Beecher Stowe's 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' in the middle of the 19th century, to Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' Grace Metalious's 'Peyton Place,'... (Boston Globe)
Uncommon lives Apr 1, 2009
In the film, he recalls quoting the first lines of an Emily Dickinson poem. Wiltsee responded with the remaining lines, then told him she was a Stanford graduate in English, something no one at the church had known. (Palo Alto Online, CA)
U-Z Famous American Literature Mar 27, 2009
X Secluded Poetess X Emily Dickinson. Living an introverted and reclusive life, Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) is often thought of as a figure clad in white in the seclusion of her garden. (Suite101.com)
College Reading Lists Mar 24, 2009
Consider reading works of some of the following poets: Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Maya Angelou, Sylvia Plath, and Geoffrey Chaucer. After reading several poems think how the poets use language, themes, and flow of the verses to convey their thoughts. (Suite101.com)
High-minded mining of Bob Dylan Mar 20, 2009
And the Oxford Book of American Poetry prints the lyrics to "Desolation Row" - yes, it's on my iPod - alongside Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. Attention must be paid. (Boston Globe)
All she wrote Mar 15, 2009
Her treatment of poetry is significantly less coherent and ambitious than her reading of fiction: "A Jury of Her Peers" complains that 19th-century women poets, the familiar exception of Emily Dickinson aside, "devoted their energies to new content rather than new forms," but, closer to home, Showalter herself evaluates the feminist poets of the 1970s, especially Adrienne Rich and Anne Sexton, in terms of their racy new content rather than their explorations in poetic form. Formal innovation, it... (Boston Globe)
What Could The Mystery Behind The Plantation Be About? -- New Book Follows the Struggles of Lady in Finding the Secret Behind Her Family's Plantation Mar 7, 2009
She greatly admires the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Emily Dickinson and finds William Shakespeare's words of love ever timeless. Like Ms. Austen, she has never married but has loved and is loved. (Primezone Releases)
Snowballing renovations Mar 1, 2009
The architect had recently designed a similar showplace across the street for the brother of Emily Dickinson, the reclusive poet. In 2007, Amherst native Jerry Guidera, a former journalist whose family runs a cultural exchange business in town, heard that the owner of one of the mansions - the Henry Hills House - was interested in selling. (Boston Globe)
Joint art show dances around the ephemeral Feb 26, 2009
The two share a theme; the show's title comes from an Emily Dickinson poem that treads the realm between now and eternity, between what we know and what we can't possibly comprehend. Both artists are strong. (Boston Globe)
Hope Quotes and Sayings Feb 23, 2009
These hope quotes include quotations from President Barack Obama, Emily Dickinson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Winston Churchill and Elie Wiesel ... "Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops -- at all." ~Emily Dickinson. (Suite101.com)
Is Genius Born or Can It Be Learned? Feb 22, 2009
Is Genius Born or Can It Be Learned. Is Genius Born or Can It Be Learned. (Time.com)
You Had Sex Where?! Feb 13, 2009
students have been known to visit the graveyard of Emily Dickinson for make-out sessions. 7. (Fox News)
Meditations on Asia in American art Feb 8, 2009
" Now that he's gone - he died in 1997 - five small crystals take his place. Multimedia Photos: East and West meet? Today in Culture The show finds the museum unusually full of sounds, however faint. Bells held in a kind of cage periodically sail down the spiral and ring. Synthesizers drone and vibrate away somewhere, and an amplified buzzing of bees has, when you get close, the roar of fighter planes. Periodically, parcels of books descend by pulley from on high, as part of an elaborate... (International Herald Tribune -- Travel)
Silences by Tillie Olsen Feb 8, 2009
Olsen gives examples of people who have suffered from these types of silences including Mark Twain, Isaac Babel, Oscar Wilde, F. Scott Fitzgerald, George Eliot, Joyce Cary, Joseph Conrad, Emily Dickinson, and Tillie Olsen herself, who has also experienced a period of silence. In the case of some writers, they are forced to stop writing because of the situation they are in. (Suite101.com)
VALLEY TOP 10: School discipline measures Feb 8, 2009
Sign up students for Emily Dickinson poetry slam. 5. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
