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 of 

 the long white dress, a more
complicated matter with mother-of-pearl
buttons down the back

'What stars do spangle heaven with such beauty' Shakespeare TS IV.v. #IndependenceDay

— Shakespeare Today (@Shakes_Today) July 4, 2013

For the Fourth, the only surviving recording of Walt Whitman, here reading America. Via @explore.

If we can have drones for food delivery, why shouldn't we have drones for poetry delivery, too?

Good morning! RT if you'd rather be running naked through a cornfield singing, "This Land is My Land!"

— Walt Whitman (@TheWaltWhitman) May 21, 2013

For a much more reverent mashup of Whitman, NASA, and Sagan, try this

via Brain Pickings