Emily Dickinson | Emily Dickinson
Apr.21.2013
found poem from Emily Dickinson's "at half-past three a single bird"
a silent skysupplantedcautious melody
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Mar.02.2013
The Big Read
Another new thing for me is The Big Read, which is happening in March. This year The Big Read is celebrating the Poems of Emily Dickinson. I will participate with some of the Sonoma County Libraries' discussion groups. Gwynn O'Gara, my laureate...
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Dec.26.2012
The Folger Shakespeare Library commissioned essays from 13 contemporary women writers for a handsewn chapbook published in honor of its 2012 exhibition Shakespeare's Sisters: Voices of English and European Women Writers, 1500-1700. The following essay is the final one in the book.
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Sep.06.2012
Well - more or less. There is a recently discovered daguerreotype (what a wonderful word) which is probably a reproduction of Dickinson as an adult. This would be only the second in existence, and quite a find about our fair Belle of Amherst.
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Possible Emily...
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Jan.04.2012
Tomorrow, I go into the Kaiser Hospital Building on Geary Street in San Francisco for a fourth order of "epidurals" on my spine. Epidurals consist of long curved needles which deliver a steroidal substance, usually to a rheumatic build-up in the joints of the body. The first...
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Oct.25.2011
Poetry of a different sort form the Belle of Amherst. I, myself, might add a tad or pad more of butter, for I'm a Julia Child kinda guy. But if you grate that coconut yourself, kudos.
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A Coconut Cake From Emily Dickinson: Reclusive Poet, Passionate Baker
by Nelly...
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Apr.03.2011
I am beginning to wonder why more authors don't self-publish. Oh, that's right. It's because of the onus of vanity publishing. That is changing.
There are lots of writers who still believe that legitimacy only comes with being published by a real publisher, real meaning established publishing house...
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Jan.04.2011
Conversation #2
(This Conversation is currently being edited. Contact Steven Herrmann for further information).
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Dec.17.2010
I’m nobody! Who are you?
Are you – Nobody - Too?
Then there’s the pair of us!
Don’t tell! They’d advertise – you know!
How dreary – to be – Somebody!
How public – like a frog –
To tell one’s name – the livelong June –
To the admiring bog!
Emily Dickinson
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Oct.13.2010
Professor Bullard should stick to his trellis roses, the town said. The garden was one thing, but there are rules that must not be broken. Rules about propriety, and decency, and, well, Family. The town held tight to its rules.
Right now Avery Bullard is not thinking about rules. He is strolling...
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