Seminar: Listening to Emily Dickinson with Annie Finch
To fully hear a great poem requires a triple alertness of body, mind, and the connection between them. That is the spirit in which we will invite Emily Dickinson’s poems into this seminar. Listening to Dickinson’s meter, stanza, imagery, diction, grammar, tone, capitalization, rhyme and more, we will discover the
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synapses where her meaning and form meet—places where the poem comes to life again over and over, as if re-created in that instant. By treating each syllable and stress as part of the sacred temple of the poem’s body, we will find secrets that can never be put into words—not only about Dickinson—and about poetry—but also about ourselves. No previous experience with Dickinson or poetry is required. Required Text(s): Emily Dickinson s Poems As She Preserved Them, Ed. Cristianne Miller and/or The Poems of Emily Dickinson Reading Edition, Ed. R.W. Franklin Remote 5-Week Seminar | 5 Wednesdays | November 4 December 9 | 7-8:30pm ET Please note that this class will not meet on Wednesday, November 25. This remote class will take place on Zoom. The Zoom link will be emailed to you by a staff member in the week leading up to the class start date. All are welcome, space is limited. A limited number of need-based scholarships are available. Please email support@poetshouse.org with any questions. By attending or participating in this program, you agree to abide by our Community Agreement. About the Educator: Annie Finch’s twenty books of award-winning poetry and poetics include Spells: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan U. Press) and the epic poem on abortion Among the Goddesses, as well as A Poet’s Craft and the anthology Villanelles from Everyman’s Library. Her poetry has been featured at Carnegie Hall and in The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century American Poetry.