Wednesday, December 2· 7pm– 8:30pm
Seminar: Listening to Emily Dickinson with Annie Finch
Remote Seminar
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.