conversation Emily Dickinson poetry

Talking Back to Emily D

I’m engaged with Dickinson through her letters and poems in a kind of long, late-night girls-sitting-up-and-braiding-each-other’s-hair kind of conversation. I can’t read anything she’s written without wanting to talk back. She inspires the opposite of passivity! She makes me think and feel so much, and she connects so well with what’s been going on inside me, those ineluctable currents of being that need closer and more passionate examination before they slip away into other currents.

I’m so pleased that Valaparaiso Poetry Review has published one of these midnight conversations in their Spring-Summer issue! “What Respite” is the poem, springboarding off a line in an Emily D poem. Please feel free to join our conversation. With or without braiding.

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