"We turn not older with years, but newer every day." Happy Birthday to the Belle of Amherst. Emily Dickinson was born on this day in 1830.
— Emily Dickinson (@E_Dickinson) December 10, 2015
"We turn not older with years, but newer every day." Happy Birthday to the Belle of Amherst. Emily Dickinson was born on this day in 1830.
— Emily Dickinson (@E_Dickinson) December 10, 2015
Emily Dickinson's handwritten coconut cake recipe, 19th century. đź“·Garrett Ziegler pic.twitter.com/YTe9EvUe0s
— ✍ Bibliophilia (@Libroantiguo) April 6, 2015
The Online Emily Dickinson Archive Puts 1000s of the Poet’s Manuscripts on the Web: http://t.co/ZSPoyJkwzD
— Open Culture (@openculture) October 23, 2013
OpenCulture and The New York Times report on a newly opened archive of Emily Dickinson's poems and manuscripts.
Poetry Foundation's publication announcement for New Directions'Â The Gorgeous Nothings: Emily Dickinson's Envelope Poems includes a short video of Dickinson's envelope poems and the contemporary work they have inspired.
via @proustitute
I guess Billy Collins has a thing for Emily Dickinson. He got my attention this morning with his reading of David Ray's At Emily's in Amherst. That immediately called to mind his own poem, Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes, which I heard Garrison Keillor read on the program in 2001. Ray mentions "the white dress with pearl buttons;" Collins writes ofÂ
Together they reminded me of this interview with Annie Leibovitz in which Emily Dickinson's dress and its "alabaster" buttons make a brief appearance. the long white dress, a more
complicated matter with mother-of-pearl
buttons down the back