Monthly Archives: April 2014

(the 1890 Robert Bros. edition which first published Emily Dickinson’s work, edited by her literary ‘mentor’ Colonel Higginson and the free-spirited Mabel Loomis Todd, who had a long adulterous affair with Emily’s brother Austin) “I’m ceded–I’ve stopped being Theirs–”                                                                        “My second … Continue reading →

(a poet pondering Whitman gems in a populous city) Walt Whitman is best-known for his long poems, but there is also a beauty in brevity, as Emily Dickinson proved in her own way. These nine obscure ‘shorties’ offer insights into … Continue reading →

When I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them; When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured … Continue reading →