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Then, again, one day, the one who was once young will learn that somewhere at the other end of this very earth the older one has died. At first she...

For any writer, the life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge brings moments of painful recognition at every turn. Richard Holmes’s magisterial biography of Coleridge is replete with examples of the Romantic...

Asking how my criticism relates to my poetry is like asking how my obsessions relate to my compulsions. It’s a question I’m much too glad to answer. I like Jhumpa...

I Woke Up and it was political I made coffee and the coffee was political I took a shower and the water was.                      ...

In his introduction to the anthology The Unwritten Song, Willard R. Trask cites what he calls "one of the very few detailed accounts of composition that … describes a process in...

For Lit Hub, Martha Ackmann thinks about an historic letter penned by Emily Dickinson.

At Paris Review, Martha Ackmann writes about one aspect of Dickinson in particular: her white dress.

At the Washington Post, Clark traces a path from the Emily Dickinson she read in high school to the multitudinous iterations of the poet that are now permeating mass media.

There's a lot about Emily Dickinson that AppleTV+ gets wrong, Johanna Winant writes in her Slate assessment of the whimsical new series, Dickinson, which is "silly, horny, a little sad, and just a shade frightening."