International Women's Day

We are preparing a poetry reading of Emily Dickinson's work for March 8th, The International Women's Day. Known because of her introverted and reclusive life, Dickinson managed to write intensively until after her death, when Dickinson's family discovered 40 handbound volumes of nearly 1800 of her poems, or "fascicles" as they are sometimes called which had been kept in her room unnoticed.

 Admired throughout the world now and studied in most universities, ED  vas inspired by the poetry of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, as well as John Keats.

Dissuaded from reading the verse of her contemporary Walt Whitman by rumor of its disgracefulness, the two poets are now connected by the distinguished place they hold as the founders of a uniquely American poetic voice.

Although fewer than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems were published during her lifetime, Dickinson's poems are unique for the era in which she wrote; they contain short lines, typically lack titles, and often use slant rhyme as well as unconventional capitalization and punctuation. Many of her poems deal with themes of death and immortality, two recurring topics in letters to her friends.

If you want to train for the poetry reading, come to our conversation class Tuesdays and Thursdays at 12.00 room 2.3: sounds, intonation, tone units, linking devices, pauses, etc.

If you cannot attend, but are curious about this poet, go to:

http://www.emilydickinson.org/

http://www.online-literature.com/dickinson/

AUDIO POEMS

 http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/155

http://www.poets.org/search.php/fs/1/prmAuthor/DICKINSON/prmMediaTitle/+/prmKeyword/+/prmFormID/0/prmMovementID/0/prmThemeID/0