Comments for Emily Every Day

Comment on A Birthday Is the Thing With Feathers by Alex Marestaing

Alex Marestaing — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 03:12:38 +0000

Just found your blog, I’m a writer who just published a middle grade/ya novel that includes some of Emily’s poems, not the most popular thing to write about for that demographic these days, but the words are too valuable to lose

Comment on A Birthday Is the Thing With Feathers by Barbara Rodgers

Barbara Rodgers — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 20:47:18 +0000

“Too much of Proof affronts Belief” – I appreciated your thoughts about this poem. So happy that timeless Emily exists, too!

Comment on A Birthday Is the Thing With Feathers by Irwincohen

Irwincohen — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:39:59 +0000

Thank you for the post. Happy Emily Day!

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Comment on Proximity to Chaos by Constance Adler

Constance Adler — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 16:10:56 +0000

Dear Lenore, thank you so much for pointing me toward the ED FB page. What a delight. I have very much enjoyed Charyn’s book, and I’m so happy to see the page moderated by a professor of mine from Smith (eons ago) Susan Snively. Thanks for reading. I’ll stay in the ED loop. best, Constance

Comment on Proximity to Chaos by Lenore Riegel

Lenore Riegel — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 19:33:52 +0000

I happened on your blog while looking up one of Emily’s “scraps” of poetry. I am sitting here in Frost Library going through artist Jen Bervin’s amazing artwork, The Gorgeous Nothings and sharing them with my own Emily Dickinson FB community, of fans of Emily and Jerome Charyn’s novel, The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson. I, too, explore Emily every day – come visit sometime and participate: http://www.facebook.com/SecretLifeOfEmilyDickinson The site is “dedicated to Emily Dickinson, who seems more at home in the 21st Century than she did in her own time.” – Lenore Riegel

Comment on February’s Foot by Catherine Cooper

Catherine Cooper — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:53:27 +0000

Oh my, synchronicity at work. Not too long ago, only a few weeks, possibly around the time you wrote this entry, I had the most powerful dream I have had in a while (powerful in the aftershock at least). I was looking out my window at the most beautiful snow–in my trees, on my street, still falling, but peacefully enough for a couple to walk down the sidewalk outside my window, holding hands, stopping for a kiss. I awoke marveling at how comforting the scene had felt in the dream, especially because I awoke to springtime in New Orleans. Usually I despise the cold–I spent three winters in Boston and one in Minnesota before hightailing it back here. Perhaps it represented a beautiful, purposeful fallow period in my life, however. Days after that dream, I began writing in earnest. Thank you for posting.

Comment on Devil’s Play by Constance Adler

Constance Adler — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 22:09:44 +0000

Hi Chad, thanks for reading. Emily did have seven of her poems published during her lifetime. The rest she “published” in a sense on her own. She copied them over in a fair hand, collected them in packets, and sewed the binding with thread. There is one theory that she may have been preparing her work for publication. The other theory offers that this form of publication—for herself alone—was good enough, or at least as far as she wanted to go. “Publication — is the Auction / Of the Mind of Man — ,” Emily wrote. “Poverty — be justifying / For so foul a thing.” Maybe she was in a bad mood that day. But then why write? It’s a puzzle, all right.

Comment on Devil’s Play by Chad Aichs

Chad Aichs — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 18:42:44 +0000

I thought though that Emily at one point did try to have some of her poems published. I do not know but I think she would have liked that. Not for recognition so much but because they meant something to her and she would have enjoyed making people think or even smile.

Comment on February’s Foot by Barbara Rodgers

Barbara Rodgers — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:29:23 +0000

Congratulations on the publication of your book – I’m looking forward to reading it! Now there’s something to ponder, Emily at Carnival…

Comment on Subtle Cargo by Barbara Rodgers

Barbara Rodgers — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:43:14 +0000

Well said, Emily and Constance.

That’s something I taught my children, that unconditional love is for children, adult partners must negotiate their terms and make sure they put all their cards on the table. Unromantic, perhaps, but a more solid foundation for a workable union…